The journal describes the following week:
"February 16. The weather cleared up this morning and the sun came out, enabling us to fix our position.
"We are doing about eight knots under topsails and foresail. The sky looked threatening this evening but improved considerably before midnight.
"February 17. There were frequent snow squalls today, making it difficult to see. Only a few scattered pieces of ice were about.
"February 18. Bright, clear weather to-day enabled us to get good observations. There are a great many 'blue whales' round the ship, and the many bergs in sight are suggestive of heavy pack to the south. A great many petrels and Cape pigeons have been seen.
"February 19. The ship was brought up this morning at 8.45 by a line of heavy pack extending across the course. The weather was misty, but cleared up before noon. We have been obliged to steer a northerly course along the edge of the pack.
"The margin of this pack is some sixty miles farther north than that which we followed in 1912.
"At midnight we were steering north-north-west; many bergs in sight and a line of pack to port.
"February 20. At daylight we were able to steer southwest, being at noon about twenty miles north of Termination Ice-Tongue. Pushing through the looser edge of pack for a couple of hours we saw the loom of the ice-tongue to the southward. The pack becoming closer, we turned back to the north in order to try and push through farther west, where the sky looked more promising.
"At dark we were in a patch of clear water, with ice all around. It began to snow and, as the wind remained a light easterly, the ship was allowed to drift until daylight.