Campbell says there was an extraordinary change as he approached the beach.
I sent two or three people to dig into the hard snow drift behind the camp; they got into solid ice immediately, became interested in the job, and have begun the making of a cave which is to be our larder.

Already they have tunnelled 6 or 8 feet in and have begun side channels.

In a few days they will have made quite a spacious apartment--an ideal place to keep our meat store.

We had been speculating as to the origin of this solid drift and attached great antiquity to it, but the diggers came to a patch of earth with skua feathers, which rather knocks our theories on the head.
The wind began to drop at midday, and after lunch I went to the ship.

I was very glad to learn that she can hold steam at two hours' notice on an expenditure of 13 cwt.