All night long the electric light gleamed from the stern of the dying 'Endurance'.

Hussey had left this light switched on when he took a last observation, and, like a lamp in a cottage window, it braved the night until in the early morning the 'Endurance' received a particularly violent squeeze.

There was a sound of rending beams and the light disappeared.

The connexion had been cut.
Morning came in chill and cheerless.

All hands were stiff and weary after their first disturbed night on the floe.