262 SCOTT'S: LAST: BAPCEDITION [FEBRUARY 
Feb.2r, action, but was no nearer relieving Campbell. That 
Ge het evening the storm eased down and course was again 
E. shaped for the Drygalski Barrier, with the hope that 
the ice which had previously barred her way might 
have drifted past the end of the Barrier. ‘The pack (now on the 
starboard hand) was followed south as closely as possible, though 
snow often shut in everything to a ship’s length and compelled 
her to stop till it was clear enough again to see where she was 
going. Gradually she was able to alter more to the west and 
north of west, until in the middle watch (23rd) she had rounded 
the southern end of the pack, some 20 miles south of the Dry- 
galski Barrier, and was steering north through light pancake ice 
with, of course, the heavy pack again to the eastward of her. 
The pancake ice gradually became heavier, but she was able to 
make two or three knots at sixty revolutions. 
Tempted on by what appeared to be water sky ahead, she 
rather unexpectedly came to a dead stop about 4 A.M. and could 
fp ens not even go astern in her wake, as the pack east of 
1912, 75° 43/_ her was pressing in towards the coast and so consoli- 
S., 164° 20’ dating the pancake ice she was in. At the same time 
the weather cleared and showed the extremity of the 
Drygalski Barrier to be fifteen miles due north. The water sky 
proved to be a myth. 
After six hours the pressure eased and the Terra Nova was 
able to turn, taking, however, four hours’ struggle to do so, and 
it took another twenty-six hours to escape from the ice which, 
on the day before, she had taken three hours to pass through. 
The alternative of leaving the ship in the ice and letting her drift 
with it past the Barrier was too dangerous to be more than 
thought of and cast aside, owing to the probable severe pressure 
that would be encountered while passing the Barrier itself. 
The ship immediately proceeded to Cape Evans in order to 
report and to embark those going home, as it was probable that 
she would have to spend the remainder of her time trying to 
relieve Campbell. 
As far as Cape Bird the ship passed through sea covered with 
pancake ice, and Ponting was able to get some very interesting 
photos of it in different stages of growth. Fortunately this ice 
only reduced her speed by about two knots. 
After passing Cape Bird a strong southerly wind sprang up, 
