The fires required to keep the boiler warm consumed one and a quarter to one and a half hundred-weight of coal per day.

We had about fifty tons of coal remaining in the bunkers.
October 21 and 22 were days of low temperature, which caused the open leads to freeze over.

The pack was working, and ever and anon the roar of pressure came to our ears.

We waited for the next move of the gigantic forces arrayed against us.

The 23rd brought a strong north- westerly wind, and the movement of the floes and pressure-ridges became more formidable.