We escaped from the heavy floes about us into much thinner pack, then through two water holes, then back to the thinner pack consisting of thin floes of large area fairly easily broken.

The pack here is very regular; the floes about 2 1/2 feet thick and very solid.

Much greater difficulty, and dangers indeed, were encountered among the broken and grating floes, than had been expected, or previously met with.

The ship has pushed on well, covering at least 3 miles an hour, though occasionally almost stopped by a group of hummocked floes.

There are fewer heavy old floes; on the other hand, the one year's floes, tremendously screwed and doubtless including old floes in their mass, have now enormously increased in area.

We passed a stream of ice over which the sea was breaking heavily and one realised the danger of being amongst loose floes in such a sea.

Beneath the placid ice floes and under the calm water pools the old universal warfare is raging incessantly in the struggle for existence.

The ice of yesterday loose with sludgy thin floes between.

Worn as I was, I made little delay to set out for that ship; and I had not travelled over water and ice four hours when, to my in-describable joy, I made out from the top of a steep floe that she was the Boreal.

Is this a typical floe?

Meanwhile the brash and thinner floes are melting; everything of that sort must helpbut it's trying to the patience to be delayed like this.

It is pretty to see the snow petrel and Antarctic petrel diving on to the upturned and flooded floes.

Such floes might well be termed 'composite' floes, since they evidently consist of old floes which have been frozen togetherthe junction being concealed by more recent snow falls.

A considerable floe of pressed up young ice is grounded under the point, and this morning we found a seal on this.

"A pretty tall berg it seems to be, with an extensive ice-floe around it as level in spots as a floor.