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feel the strain when Captain Jensen came to relieve 
me, and the reaction of those long but delightful 
hours of important work is felt now while I write it 
down. From your lofty perch in the crow's nest 
you seem lifted above all the pettiness and difficulties 
of the small world below you. Wide is your horizon, 
and while you sweep the ice-field with a long 
telescope which threatens to lift you in see-saw 
fashion out of your nest, your mind is concentrated 
on one thing only 
— to bring the 
vessel onwards 
(uo SUCCESS, Wine 
hurt through 
those obstacles 
only visible 
from your lofty 
position. 
As I observed 
during my pre- 
yous penance SHE WAS ELEVEN FEET OF SOLID OAK AT 
within the Ant- THE BOWS. 
ате е pack, I 
again found the characteristic ice-blink in the air 
where large ice-fields were, and dark vapour clouds 
always indicating open water. It is, of course, of the 
utmost importance to watch the constant change in 
the air when looking for a likely direction in which 
to proceed. This is just as important as to watch 
the ice-field itself, and also the direction of the swell, 
—] mean the direction from which the swell comes. 
To determine this is, of course, under certain con- 
mc a matter of “to be, or not to be," as in a 
