We stopped and picked it up, finding it a beautiful silver grey, genus _Notothenia_--I think a new species.
Snow squalls have been passing at intervals--the wind continues in the N.W.It is comparatively warm.
We saw the first full-grown Emperor penguin to-night.
_Monday, December_ 19 .-- On the whole, in spite of many bumps, we made good progress during the night, but the morning (present) outlook is the worst we've had.

We seem to be in the midst of a terribly heavy screwed pack; it stretches in all directions as far as the eye can see, and the prospects are alarming from all points of view.

I have decided to push west--anything to get out of these terribly heavy floes.

Great patience is the only panacea for our ill case.

It is bad luck.
We first got amongst the very thick floes at 1 A.M., and jammed through some of the most monstrous I have ever seen.