37' for latitude, our longitude remaining the same, between the forty-second and the forty-third meridian.

This was already a point beyond the Antarctic Circle that few navigators had been able to reach.

We were at only two degrees lower than Weddell.
The navigation of the schooner naturally became a more delicate matter in the midst of those dim, wan masses soiled with the excreta of birds.

Many of them had a leprous look: compared with their already considerable volume, how small our little ship, over whose mast some of the icebergs already towered, must have appeared! Captain Len Guy admirably combined boldness and prudence in his command of his ship.

He never passed to leeward of an iceberg, if the distance did not guarantee the success of any manoeuvre whatsoever that might suddenly become necessary.