75ｰ 23ｴ S., long.

42ｰ 14ｴ W.

The temperature at noon was 5ｰ below zero Fahr., and the sky was overcast.

A seal was sighted from the mast-head at lunch-time, and five men, with two dog teams, set off after the prize.

They had an uncomfortable journey outward in the dim, diffused light, which cast no shadows and so gave no warning of irregularities in the white surface.
It is a strange sensation to be running along on apparently smooth snow and to fall suddenly into an unseen hollow, or bump against a ridge.
"After going out three miles to the eastward," wrote Worsley in describing this seal-hunt, "we range up and down but find nothing, until from a hummock I fancy I see something apparently a mile away, but probably little more than half that distance.