I9I31 A VISIT TO CAMPBELL'S IGLOO 401 
would not move them. The outlook was brighter at 
midnight, when we were doing 5 knots to the north- 
eastward, the ice-fields being less compressed. The 
punching and butting through continued with varying 
success till 9 P.M. on January 24, when the Commander 
concluded that it was a waste of coal and unfair 
to the ship to proceed. We stopped, therefore, and 
banked fires. 
After a delay of seven or eight hours Bruce 
reported the ice to be opening tremendously, and we 
accordingly proceeded on January 25, as soon as 
steam was ready. Very gradually the old ship worked 
towards Terra Nova Bay. Shortly after noon we won 
through into a very big open lead and could make five 
knots on our course. We stopped to sound at 8 a.m. 
and noon, the soundings showing 437, 625, and 515 
fathoms. These soundings show a ' deep ' which I 
believe Professor David rather suspected. They were 
really taken for his benefit. 
By 3 A.M. on January 25 we had worked the ship 
through the ice near Campbell's winter quarters and 
secured to the sea ice which extended a quarter of a mile 
out from the piedmont. This was particularly solid and 
slippery, being quite free from snow. Although so close 
to the shore we found the depth 198 fathoms. 
We sent a party away under Priestley to pick up the 
depot of geological specimens ; the remainder of the 
Expedition visited the igloo where Campbell and his 
party spent the previous winter. 
The visit to the igloo revealed in itself a story of 
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