I shall be glad when we get there onto the big ice again.

This region here was open water as late as February and early March and is now covered with young ice which is extremely unreliable as a means of return.

A few hours of a brisk wind, east, west, or south, would make this entire region open water for from fifty to sixty miles north and south and an unknown extent east and west.

Only calm weather or a northerly wind keeps it practicable." A double march brought us to Camp Abruzzi, 86 deg.

38', named in honor of the farthest north of the Duke of the Abruzzi.