We have less than 300 tons of coal left in a ship that simply eats coal.

It's alarming--and then there are the ponies going steadily down hill in condition.

The only encouragement is the persistence of open water to the east and south-east to south; big lanes of open water can be seen in that position, but we cannot get to them in this pressed up pack.
Atkinson has discovered a new tapeworm in the intestines of the Adelie penguin--a very tiny worm one-eighth of an inch in length with a propeller-shaped head.
A crumb of comfort comes on finding that we have not drifted to the eastward appreciably.
_Friday, December_ 23 .-- The wind fell light at about ten last night and the ship swung round.

Sail was set on the fore, and she pushed a few hundred yards to the north, but soon became jammed again.

This brought us dead to windward of and close to a large berg with the wind steadily increasing.