She would be crushed like an egg-shell amid the shattering masses.
Worsley was in the crow's-nest on the evening of the 15th, watching for signs of land to the westward, and he reported an interesting phenomenon.

The sun set amid a glow of prismatic colours on a line of clouds just above the horizon.

A minute later Worsley saw a golden glow, which expanded as he watched it, and presently the sun appeared again and rose a semi-diameter clear above the western horizon.

He hailed Crean, who from a position on the floe 90 ft.

below the crow's- nest also saw the re-born sun.