I told all the boats that immediately we could find a suitable floe the cooker would be started and hot milk and Bovril would soon fix everybody up.

Away we rowed to the westward through open pack, floes of all shapes and sizes on every side of us, and every man not engaged in pulling looking eagerly for a suitable camping-place.

I could gauge the desire for food of the different members by the eagerness they displayed in pointing out to me the floes they considered exactly suited to our purpose.

The temperature was about 10ｰ Fahr., and the Burberry suits of the rowers crackled as the men bent to the oars.

I noticed little fragments of ice and frost falling from arms and bodies.