this tremendous glacier for 40 miles and then, at 8.30 a.m., we were
held up by solid pack-ice, which appeared to be held by stranded bergs.
The depth, two cables off the barrier-cliff, was 134 fathoms. No
further advance was possible that day, but the noon observation, which
gave the position as lat. 76° 27´ S. long. 28° 51´ W., showed that we
had gained 124 miles to the south-west during the preceding twenty-four
hours. The afternoon was not without incident. The bergs in the
neighbourhood were very large, several being over 200 ft. high, and
some of them were firmly aground, showing tidemarks. A barrier-berg
bearing north-west appeared to be about 25 miles long. We pushed the
ship against a small banded berg, from which Wordie secured several
large lumps of biotite granite. While the 'Endurance' was being held
slow ahead against the berg a loud crack was heard, and the geologist
had to scramble aboard at once. The bands on this berg were
particularly well defined; they were due to morainic action in the
parent glacier. Later in the day the easterly wind increased to a gale.
Fragments of floe drifted past at about two knots, and the pack to
leeward began to break up fast. A low berg of shallow draught drove
down into the grinding pack and, smashing against two larger stranded
bergs, pushed them off the bank. The three went away together pell-
mell. We took shelter under the lee of a large stranded berg.

A blizzard from the east-north-east prevented us leaving the shelter
of the berg on the following day (Sunday, January 17). The weather was
clear, but the gale drove dense clouds of snow off the land and
obscured the coast-line most of the time. "The land, seen when the air
is clear, appears higher than we thought it yesterday; probably it
rises to 3000 ft. above the head of the glacier. Caird Coast, as I
have named it, connects Coats' Land, discovered by Bruce in 1904, with
Luitpold Land, discovered by Filchner in 1912. The northern part is