It appeared almost hopeless to prevent them smashing under their heavy loads when travelling over rough pressure- ice which stretched ahead of us for probably 300 miles.

After the pioneer sledge had started the seven dog teams got off.

They took their sledges forward for half a mile, then went back for the other sledges.
Worsley took charge of the two boats, with fifteen men hauling, and these also had to be relayed.

It was heavy work for dogs and men, but there were intervals of comparative rest on the backward journey, after the first portion of the load had been taken forward.

We passed over two opening cracks, through which killers were pushing their ugly snouts, and by 5 p.m.had covered a mile in a north-north-westerly direction.