LOSS OF THE ENDURANCE 
The cook prepared breakfast, which consisted of biscuit 
and hoosh, at 8 a.m., and I then went over to the Endurance 
again and made a fuller examination of the wreck. Only six 
of the cabins had not been pierced by floes and blocks of ice. 
Every one of the starboard cabins had been crushed. The 
whole of the after part of the ship had been crushed concertina 
fashion. The forecastle and the Eitz were submerged, and the 
wardroom was three-quarters full of ice. The starboard side of 
the wardroom had come away. The motor-engine forward had 
been driven through the galley. Petrohcases that had been 
stacked on the fore-deck had been driven by the floe through 
the wall into the wardroom and had carried l^efore them a large 
picture. Curiously enough, the glass of tliis picture had not 
been cracked, whereas in the immediate neighbourhood I saw 
heavy iron davits that had been twisted and bent like the 
ironwork of a wrecked train. The ship was being crushed 
remorselessly. 
Under a dull, overcast slcy I returned to camp and examined 
our situation. The floe occupied by the camp was stiU subject 
to pressure, and I thought it wise to move to a larger and 
apparently stronger floe about 200 yds. away, off the starboard 
bow of the ship. This camp was to become known as Dump 
Camp, owing to the amount of stuff that was thrown away 
there. We could not afford to carry unnecessary gear, and 
a drastic sorting of equipment took place. I decided to issue 
a complete new set of Burberrys and underclothing to each man, 
and also a supply of new socks. The camp was transferred to 
the larger floe quickly, and I began there to direct the pre- 
parations for the long journey across the floes to Paulet Island 
or Snow Hill. 
Hurley meanwhile had rigged his kinematograph-camera 
and was getting pictures of the Endurance in her death-throes. 
While he was engaged thus, the ice, driving against the standing 
rigging and the fore-, main- and mizzen-masts, snapped the 
shrouds. The foretop and topgallant-mast came down with 
a run and hung in wreckage on the fore-mast, with the fore- 
yard vertical. The mainmast followed immediately, snapping 
ofi about 10 ft. above the main deck. The crow's-nest fell 
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