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eased up or became heavier, the ship at last got on the north side 
of the Barrier and into clear water; and during the first watch 
of the 8th was secured alongside the sea ice at the entrance to 
what is now called Arrival Bay, about six miles north of Evans 
Coves. 
The gear and a month’s depot for Campbell’s party were 
immediately disembarked, and with hands from the ship to haul 
a depot sledge, he was left on a moraine about one and a quarter 
miles from the ship. 
The ship slipped immediately her party returned, and meet- 
tae ing a good deal of fog and snow had some difficulty 
1012, 76° 3’ in working through the pack on the way out, being 
S., 165° 55’ eventually held up during the forenoon of the roth 
nd and kept there for thirty-six hours; but in the end 
she arrived off Beaufort Island during the afternoon of the 12th. 
The prospect was not encouraging, as there was nothing 
but heavy pack in the direction of Granite Harbour and across 
ae the whole entrance to McMurdo Sound. It was, how- 
1012, 76° 42’ ever, a glorious day, and the opportunity was taken to 
S., 167° 12' swing ship for magnetic constants, take observations 
Bi. for variation on the ice, sound, and try to collect 
plankton. In the Antarctic seas the water is often so full of 
diatoms that the fine meshes of the plankton nets choke as soon 
as they are put over. This, by stopping the passage of water 
through the net, prevents it catching anything and so renders 
useless many opportunities for collecting that would otherwise 
be favourable. 
Till February 4 nothing could be done. On January 13 fast 
ice was found to extend as far north as the southern end of 
Bia, Bird Peninsula; and, when it was possible to work 
ae 7, through the pack towards Granite Harbour, fast ice 
or near was found on the 23rd to extend thirty miles from 
McMurdo _ the head of this inlet. 
Sound. : 
These three weeks were one long succession of 
being caught in the pack and struggling to get out again. When- 
ever there appeared to be any change, the ship would steam over 
towards Granite Harbour or Cape Evans to look; for often it 
appeared as if the ice in the strait was really breaking up, but 
every time in reality it was found that only comparatively little 
had gone out. 
