I hope they will know in the ship, as it would be interesting to witness the birth of a glacier in this region.
It is clearing to-night, but still blowing hard.

The ponies don't like the wind, but they are all standing the cold wonderfully and all their sores are healed up.
_Wednesday, January_ 18 .-- The ship had a poor time last night; steam was ordered, but the floe began breaking up fast at 1 A.M., and the rest of the night was passed in struggling with ice anchors; steam was reported ready just as the ship broke adrift.

In the morning she secured to the ice edge on the same line as before but a few hundred yards nearer.

After getting things going at the hut, I walked over and suggested that Pennell should come round the corner close in shore.

The ice anchors were tripped and we steamed slowly in, making fast to the floe within 200 yards of the ice foot and 400 yards of the hut.
For the present the position is extraordinarily comfortable.