We kept our course southwardly for four days after giving up the search for Glass's islands, without meeting with any ice at all.

On the twenty-sixth, at noon, we were in latitude 63 degrees 23' S., longitude 41 degrees 25' W.We now saw several large ice islands, and a floe of field ice, not, however, of any great extent.

The winds generally blew from the southeast, or the northeast, but were very light.

Whenever we had a westerly wind, which was seldom, it was invariably attended with a rain squall.

Every day we had more or less snow.