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knowing when the next opportunity may occur to obtain 
fresh water. 
During the 30th the floes were visibly breaking up, 
and in the morning watch of the 31st steam was again 
put on the engines and the ship able to make slow but 
steady progress. 
In the early hours of the New Year the pack was left, 
and no more pack was met till the ship got 
Jan. I, 1912, ^ r o 
68° 44' s., to within five or six miles of Cape Adare at 
178° 55' E. T T 
9 A.M. on the 3rd, 
Here very heavy pack was found and Robertson Bay 
was full of it, but by waiting for the chance she managed 
Jan. 3 and 4, to get within a mile of the moraine on which 
1912. 0?7 ^j^^ 2^^^ built by il.^o; all inside this was 
Robertson •' ^ 
^^y- heavy pack swiftly moving with the tidal 
stream. Nothing could be done, and with the satisfaction 
of seeing people moving about near the hut, we had to 
haul off to the centre of the entrance, where there was now 
a space of clear water. While waiting, Lillie got a satis- 
factory trawl in fifty fathoms — the first of the season. 
At 4 P.M. the water on the north side of the moraine 
cleared sufficiently to allow of an attempt at landing, and 
after an hour's pushing through the pack she anchored 
close in, in seven fathoms. 
Rennick and Bruce immediately went on shore with 
the cutter and whaler, and in spite of a nasty swell which 
was breaking on the beach were able to embark some of 
the stores. 
In an hour and a half, however, the boats had to return, 
as the pack was setting tow^ards the ship, and she had to 
