It is evident that these birds rely on sea and swell to cast their food up on ice ledges--only a few find sustenance in the pack where, though food is plentiful, it is not so easily come by.

A flight of Antarctic petrel accompanied the ship for some distance, wheeling to and fro about her rather than following in the wake as do the more northerly sea birds.
It is [good] to escape from the captivity of the pack and to feel that a few days will see us at Cape Crozier, but it is sad to remember the terrible inroad which the fight of the last fortnight has made on our coal supply.
2 P.M .-- The wind failed in the forenoon.

Sails were clewed up, and at eleven we stopped to sound.

The sounding showed 1111 fathoms--we appear to be on the edge of the continental shelf.

Nelson got some samples and temperatures.
The sun is bursting through the misty sky and warming the air.