Then I was able to keep her very close in, along a glacier front, with the object of picking up lumps of fresh- water ice as we sailed through them.

Our thirst was intense.

We soon had some ice aboard, and for the next hour and a half we sucked and chewed fragments of ice with greedy relish.
"All this time we were coasting along beneath towering rocky cliffs and sheer glacier-faces, which offered not the slightest possibility of landing anywhere.

At 9.30 a.m.we spied a narrow, rocky beach at the base of some very high crags and cliff, and made for it.

To our joy, we sighted the 'James Caird' and the 'Stancomb Wills' sailing into the same haven just ahead of us.