We could not afford to carry unnecessary gear, and a drastic sorting of equipment took place.

I decided to issue a complete new set of Burberrys and underclothing to each man, and also a supply of new socks.

The camp was transferred to the larger floe quickly, and I began there to direct the preparations for the long journey across the floes to Paulet Island or Snow Hill.
Hurley meanwhile had rigged his kinematograph-camera and was getting pictures of the 'Endurance' in her death-throes.

While he was engaged thus, the ice, driving against the standing rigging and the fore-, main- and mizzen-masts, snapped the shrouds.

The foretop and topgallant-mast came down with a run and hung in wreckage on the fore-mast, with the fore-yard vertical.