In support of this view I notice that most of the pressure ridges are formed by pieces of a sheet which did not exceed one or two feet in thickness--also it seems that the screwed ice which we have passed has occurred mostly in the regions of bergs.

On one side of the tabular berg passed yesterday pressure was heaped to a height of 15 feet--it was like a ship's bow wave on a large scale.

Yesterday there were many bergs and much pressure; last night no bergs and practically no pressure; this morning few bergs and comparatively little pressure.

It goes to show that the unconfined pack of these seas would not be likely to give a ship a severe squeeze.
Saw a young Emperor this morning, and whilst trying to capture it one of Wilson's new whales with the sabre dorsal fin rose close to the ship.

I estimated this fin to be 4 feet high.
It is pretty to see the snow petrel and Antarctic petrel diving on to the upturned and flooded floes.