The ice has closed--I trust it will open well when the wind lets up.

There is a lot of open water behind us.

The berg described this morning has been circling round us, passing within 800 yards; the bearing and distance have altered so un-uniformly that it is evident that the differential movement between the surface water and the berg-driving layers (from 100 to 200 metres down) is very irregular.

We had several hours on the floe practising ski running, and thus got some welcome exercise.

Coal is now the great anxiety--we are making terrible inroads on our supply--we have come 240 miles since we first entered the pack streams.
The sounding to-day gave 1804 fathoms--the water bottle didn't work, but temperatures were got at 1300 and bottom.
The temperature was down to 20 deg.