It was a day or two later that we heard a great yell from the floe and found Clark dancing about and shouting Scottish war-cries.

He had secured his first complete specimen of an Antarctic fish, apparently a new species.
Mirages were frequent.

Barrier-cliffs appeared all around us on the 29th, even in places where we knew there was deep water.
"Bergs and pack are thrown up in the sky and distorted into the most fantastic shapes.

They climb, trembling, upwards, spreading out into long lines at different levels, then contract and fall down, leaving nothing but an uncertain, wavering smudge which comes and goes.
Presently the smudge swells and grows, taking shape until it presents the perfect inverted reflection of a berg on the horizon, the shadow hovering over the substance.

More smudges appear at different points on the horizon.