last night and kept 2 or 3 degrees below freezing all day.
The surface for ski-ing to-day was very good.
_Wednesday, December_ 21 .-- The wind was still strong this morning, but had shifted to the south-west.

With an overcast sky it was very cold and raw.

The sun is now peeping through, the wind lessening and the weather conditions generally improving.

During the night we had been drifting towards two large bergs, and about breakfast time we were becoming uncomfortably close to one of them--the big floes were binding down on one another, but there seemed to be open water to the S.E., if we could work out in that direction.
(_Note_ .-- All directions of wind are given 'true' in this book.) _Noon Position_ .-- 68 deg.

25' S., 179 deg.