in places, the opposing floes are moving against one another at the rate of about 200 yds.

per hour.

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf.
Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below." Early on the afternoon of the 22nd a 2-ft.

crack, running south-west and north-east for a distance of about two miles, approached to within 35 yds.

of the port quarter.