BYRD'S SHIP SUFFERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 11

BYRD'S SHIP SUFFERS

BEATING UP AND DOWN

AVOIDING THE CRUSH

United Pre»s Association—By Electric TeUerapu—Copjrlcht United Service. (By Eussell Owen—Special to "The New York Times.") (Received 13th February, 1 p.m.)

BAY OF WHALES, 12th Feb.

The weather has continued cxeerablo, and we arc still beating up and down in a stiff nor'-easter waiting for the storm to pass. The bai'ometer is going up, but that does not mean much sometimes down here. This is the seventh day of unrest and it docs not appear likely that we would get back into the bay ice for some time. The ship is practically unloaded and one more day will finish tho work. Our position is complicated by the fact that this long and unusual spell of wind from tho east and north has brought down a lot of heavy pack ice from the unknown region above us, and so as not to be caught between it and tho bay ice and squeezed, we have had to thread our way through largo floes and get entirely outside the bay into the open sea.

The conditions must be very unusual, for Amundsen's Pram only put to sea twice during her stay here, whereas we have almost lost track of the number, of times wo have left the bay ice to avoid being crashed against it by tho sea.

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