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had become distinctly denser, and every minute large, 
heavy and hummocky ice-floes sailed into the bay, 
which I named Southern Cross Fjord. According 
to instructions left on board before my landing, the 
vessel moved out to the middle of the bay some 
five or six miles from where we were landed, and 
not a minute too early had this movement of the 
vessel been effected, as the ice-pack closed up to a 
dense field. After the necessary work had been 
done on shore, and the collections had been 
brought into the whale-boat, we launched it, but 
very soon had to pull it on to the hummocky 1ce, 
MAGNETIC WORK IN LADY NEWNES BAY, 
where we dragged it along as best we could until 
a small space of open water again allowed us to 
use the oars; but several times the boat was nearly 
