1912] A STORM 261 
of the ship reaching Granite Harbour and so had beaten a retreat 
south over the piedmont. His specimens he had been compelled 
to leave in a depot at Granite Harbour. 
Shortly after they were picked up it came on to snow and 
blow. Owing to the weather it was impossible to land this party 
at Cape Evans, so the ship turned north to pick up 
Feb. 19, i 
1012, 75° Campbell’s team. Course was shaped direct for the 
27’ S., 166° extreme of the Drygalski Barrier, and the ship ran, 
ae with considerable pack to the east of her and loose 
pack in shore, until heavy ice ahead forced her to turn back on 
her course some twelve miles and then work through the eastern 
belt of pack. 
The following extract is from the ship’s journal: 
‘ Following the edge of the pack north, it was seen to be very 
heavy and the blink gave no sign of open water inside it until 
the ship was east by north thirty-five miles from the end of the 
Drygalski, when there was a belt of pack some two miles 
broad and clear water inside, at any rate for some distance: 
this belt was entered at 2.30 P.M., and it shows the heaviness 
of the ice that she was not clear till past 9 o’clock (a speed of 
a third of a knot), although it was comparatively loose-looking 
ack. 
; ‘The wind was rising as she worked through this strip of pack, 
and soon after it came on to snow heavily. Nothing could be 
done but to remain under easy steam, to avoid the floes, if pos- 
sible, and look out for bergs. Before midnight it was blowing 
storm force and objects were visible at only a few hundred 
yards.’ 
The storm continued for two days, the latter half without 
snow, when Mount Melbourne showed up in great beauty. 
The open water the ship was in was about six miles broad, 
and though across the pack another lead (or possibly open 
water) could be seen, five miles or so distant, yet it was absolutely 
out of her reach. 
The wind was steady in direction from the south-west, and 
the whole pack and ship drifted slowly but surely north until it 
became imperative to regain the open sea to avoid being caught 
in the cul-de-sac of Lady Newnes Bay. 
Fortunately the retreat was open and the wind fair for tak- 
ing it, and so on the 21st the ship had regained her freedom of 
