The big tent could not be replaced, and in order to provide shelter for the men we turned the 'Dudley Docker' upside down and wedged up the weather side with boulders.

We also lashed the painter and stern-rope round the heaviest rocks we could find, so as to guard against the danger of the boat being moved by the wind.

The two bags of clothing were bobbing about amid the brash and glacier-ice to the windward side of the spit, and it did not seem possible to reach them.

The gale continued all day, and the fine drift from the surface of the glacier was added to the big flakes of snow falling from the sky.

I made a careful examination of the spit with the object of ascertaining its possibilities as a camping- ground.