We have made a mile or two in a westerly direction in the same manner as yesterday.

The floes seem a little smaller, but our outlook is very limited; there is a thick haze, and the only fact that can be known is that there are pools of water at intervals for a mile or two in the direction in which we go.
We commence to move between two floes, make 200 or 300 yards, and are then brought up bows on to a large lump.

This may mean a wait of anything from ten minutes to half an hour, whilst the ship swings round, falls away, and drifts to leeward.

When clear she forges ahead again and the operation is repeated.

Occasionally when she can get a little way on she cracks the obstacle and slowly passes through it.