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and extending fifteen to twenty miles eastward from 
the extremity of the Drygalski Barrier. On the outskirts 
thin pancake and small, but very heavy, bay ice floes ; 
the heavy floes becoming more numerous and the new 
ice heavier the farther the pack is entered, till heavy 
pack with interspaces all filled with snow slush forms 
an impenetrable barrier ; in places this year's pancake, 
consolidated and up to one foot thick, in thick slush, 
forms equally impenetrable barrier owing to its viscous 
nature.' 
In the forenoon of the 3rd the ship was again headed 
for Cape Evans. From several miles north of Beaufort 
March 3, Island to nearly Cape Royds the ship was 
^S^^iey^ 26' P^ss^^g through pancake ice, refrozen into 
^- large solid sheets of very varying heaviness 
but often sufficient to reduce her speed fifty per cent. 
The wait at Cape Evans was very short ; she was only 
delayed an hour embarking those members going home 
who had not been able to get on board before, together 
with Keohane, and then proceeded to Hut Point, where 
the ice had now broken away to within a quarter of a 
mile of the hut. 
Atkinson and Keohane were landed and a few stores 
^. , taken to the hut. The ship then ran for the 
March 4, ^ 
1912. Off' Glacier Tongue to complete with water, and 
Hut Point. 1 1 r / 1 1 \ I 1 . 
shortly after 10 p.m. (the 4th) proceeded agam 
for Terra Nova Bay. 
Although only twenty hours had elapsed between the 
time she passed Cape Royds going south, and repassed 
it going north, the ice had materially thickened, and 
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