A platform was rigged under the jib-boom in order that Hurley might secure some kinematograph pictures of the ship breaking through the ice.

The young ice did not present difficulties to the 'Endurance', which was able to smash a way through, but the lumps of older ice were more formidable obstacles, and conning the ship was a task requiring close attention.

The most careful navigation could not prevent an occasional bump against ice too thick to be broken or pushed aside.

The southerly breeze strengthened to a moderate south-westerly gale during the afternoon, and at 8 p.m.we hove to, stem against a floe, it being impossible to proceed without serious risk of damage to rudder or propeller.

I was interested to notice that, although we had been steaming through the pack for three days, the north-westerly swell still held with us.