Never have I experienced such rapid and complete changes of prospect.

Cheetham in the last dog watch was running the ship through sludgy new ice, making with all sail set four or five knots.

Bruce, in the first, took over as we got into heavy ice again; but after a severe tussle got through into better conditions.

The ice of yesterday loose with sludgy thin floes between.

The middle watch found us making for an open lead, the ice around hard and heavy.