Big blocks of ice had been tossed on to the floe surface.

Wordie, engaged in measuring the thickness of young ice, went through to his waist one day just as a killer rose to blow in the adjacent lead.

His companions pulled him out hurriedly.
On the 22nd the 'Endurance' reached the farthest south point of her drift, touching the 77th parallel of latitude in long.

35ｰ W.The summer had gone; indeed the summer had scarcely been with us at all.
The temperatures were low day and night, and the pack was freezing solidly around the ship.

The thermometer recorded 10ｰ below zero Fahr.
at 2 a.m.on the 22nd.