Then on again, and since alternately bad and good--that is, thin young floes and hoary older ones, occasionally a pressed up berg, very heavy.
The best news of yesterday was that we drifted 15 miles to the S.E., so that we have not really stopped our progress at all, though it has, of course, been pretty slow.
I really don't know what to think of the pack, or when to hope for open water.
We tried Atkinson's blubber stove this afternoon with great success.

The interior of the stove holds a pipe in a single coil pierced with holes on the under side.

These holes drip oil on to an asbestos burner.

The blubber is placed in a tank suitably built around the chimney; the overflow of oil from this tank leads to the feed pipe in the stove, with a cock to regulate the flow.

A very simple device, but as has been shown a very effective one; the stove gives great heat, but, of course, some blubber smell.