In any other part of the world one would have felt certain of a coming gale.

But here by experience we know that the barometer gives little indication of wind.
Throughout the afternoon and evening the water holes became more frequent and we came along at a fine speed.

At the end of the first watch we were passing through occasional streams of ice; the wind had shifted to north and the barometer had ceased to fall.

In the middle watch the snow held up, and soon after--1 A.M .-- Bowers steered through the last ice stream.
At six this morning we were well in the open sea, the sky thick and overcast with occasional patches of fog.

We passed one small berg on the starboard hand with a group of Antarctic petrels on one side and a group of snow petrels on the other.