HAULING BY STEAM FAILS 



the barrel of the steam winch, and after the first part 

 had been made fast to the loaded sledges, orders were 

 given to heave away on the winch, and the sledges were, 

 in this manner, hauled ashore. This device answered 

 well enough in principle, but in actual practice we found 

 tbat the amount of time that would be occupied in 

 doing the work would be too great, especially because of 

 the necessity for hauling back the rope to the ship each 

 time, as in our present position we could not make an 

 endless haulage. We therefore reverted to our original 

 plan, and all that morning did the work by man haulage. 

 During the lunch hour we shifted the ship about a 

 hundred yards nearer the shore alongside the ice-face, 

 from which a piece had broken out during the morning, 

 leaving a level edge where the ship could be moored 

 easily. 



Just as we were going to commence work at 2 p.m. a 

 fresh breeze sprung up from the south-east, and the ship 

 began to bump against the ice-foot, her movement throw- 

 ing the water over the ice. We were then lying in a 

 rather awkward position in the apex of an angle in the 

 bay ice, and as the breeze threatened to become stronger. 

 I sent the shore-party on to the ice, and, with some diffi- 

 culty, we got clear of the ice-foot. The breeze freshening 

 we stood out to the fast ice in the strait about six miles 

 to the south and anchored there. It blew a fresh breeze 

 with drift from the south-east all that afternoon and 

 night, and did not ease up till the following afternoon. 

 During this time, Cape Koyds, Mount Erebus, and 

 Mount Bird were quite obscured, and from where we were 

 lying there appeared to be bad weather ashore, but when 

 we returned to the bay the following night at 10 p.m. we 

 heard that, except for a little falling snow, the weather 

 had been quite fine, and that the wind which had sprung 

 up at two o'clock had not continued for more than an 



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