We got through, and by sticking to the open water and then to some recently frozen pools made good progress.

At the end of the middle watch trouble began again, and during this and the first part of the morning we were wrestling with the worst conditions we have met.

Heavy hummocked bay ice, the floes standing 7 or 8 feet out of water, and very deep below.

It was just such ice as we encountered at King Edward's Land in the _Discovery_.

I have never seen anything more formidable.