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in the behavior of the ice. It no longer showed much tendency to open up under the influence of winds
the pack edge should be somewhere about 150–180 miles off in that direction.
PART III CHAPTER I Worsley named the place “Mark Time Camp,” but it didn’t seem an especially appropriate name. It implied that they had halted only temporarily, and would soon be on the move again.
It's mind boggling when I think about this, and all the locations cited during this excursion. I doubt any of them still exist with the melting of the ice caps over the past 40 years.
Thousands of penguins dotted the pack in every direction, strutting around the floes, frolicking in the water, and making a frightful racket. The penguins must have been migrating north, and Patience Camp fortunately lay in the path of their trek. All hands were put to the slaughter, bringing in every penguin that could be reached. By nightfall, they had killed, skinned, gutted, and cut up 300 Adélies. The following morning the men saw that the migration had moved on as suddenly as it had arrived. But though only about 200 penguins were observed during the day,
were continued, day and night. That evening, just at eight o’clock as Macklin was relieving Orde-Lees on watch outside, the floe unexpectedly rose to a swell and cracked, hardly 2 feet from Wild’s tent. Macklin and Orde-Lees both spread the alarm. But everybody had turned in, confident that there would
so that the boats would not be dashed
impossible. The blizzard had continued for three days and nights.
done properly was now obviously out
myriad of different shapes. They rose to the long westerly swell
and the men carefully crawled up onto the decking and put out their oars. Rowing was
