i 9 io] SKI EXERCISE 49 
berg has tilted and that a great part of the upper strata, 
probably 20 feet deep, has slipped oil, leaving the humps 
as islands on top. 
It looks as though we must exercise patience again ; 
progress is more difficult than in the worst of our experi- 
ences yesterday, but the outlook is very much brighter. 
This morning there were many dark shades of open water 
sky to the south ; the westerly wind ruffling the water 
makes these cloud shadows very dark. 
The barometer has been very steady for several days 
and we ought to have fine weather : this morning a lot 
of low cloud came from the S.W., at one time low enough 
to become fog — the clouds are rising and dissipating, 
and we have almost a clear blue sky with sunshine. 
Evening. — The wind has gone from west to W.S.W. 
and still blows nearly force 6. We are lying very 
comfortably alongside a floe with open water to windward 
for 200 or 300 yards. The sky has been clear most of the 
day, fragments of low stratus occasionally hurry across 
the sky and a light cirrus is moving with some speed. 
Evidently it is blowing hard in the upper current. The 
ice has closed — I trust it will open well when the wind 
lets up. There is a lot of open water behind us. The berg 
described this morning has been circling round us, passing 
within 800 yards ; the bearing and distance have altered 
so un-uniformly that it is evident that the differential 
movement between the surface water and the berg-driving 
layecs (from 100 to 200 metres down) is very irregular. 
We had several hours on the floe practising ski running, 
and thus got some welcome exercise. Coal is now the 
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