A strong gale now set in from the southwest; the deck of the brig was covered with ice and snow and the weather became exceedingly damp and cold.

The men were suffering not only from want of sufficient room but from the inadequacy of the clothing." Naturally the further south they penetrated the greater became their danger from the increasing fields of ice and icebergs.

The _Peacock_ and _Flying Fish_ left Orange Harbor on the same day with the _Porpoise_ and _Sea Gull_.

They were separated by a gale and the _Peacock_ was continually beset by icebergs.

Every rope and the deck, spars and rigging were thickly coated with ice.