Nothing could be seen of her.

Far away on one side rose a peak, which looked like the place where we had landed.

Judging from the wind, which we still supposed to be southerly, the peak lay toward the northeast; in which case we had been carried steadily, in spite of all our efforts, toward the south.

About a mile on one side of us the ice began, and extended far away; while on the other side, at the distance of some ten miles, there was another line of ice.

We seemed to have been carried in a southwesterly direction along a broad strait that ran into the vast ice-fields.