We made a move again at 7 p.m., when we took in the ice-anchor and proceeded south, and at 10 p.m.we passed a small berg that the ship had nearly touched twelve hours previously.

Obviously we were not making much headway.

Several of the bergs passed during this day were of solid blue ice, indicating true glacier origin.
By midnight of the 3rd we had made 11 miles to the south, and then came to a full stop in weather so thick with snow that we could not learn if the leads and lanes were worth entering.

The ice was hummocky, but, fortunately, the gale was decreasing, and after we had scanned all the leads and pools within our reach we turned back to the north-east.
Two sperm and two large blue whales were sighted, the first we had seen for 260 miles.

We saw also petrels, numerous adelies, emperors, crab- eaters, and sea-leopards.