SEVEN DAYS OF UNREST

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2135, 14 February 1929, Page 5

SEVEN DAYS OF UNREST

FOR- BYRD EXPEDITION

IN THE OPEN SEA AGAIN TO AVOID THE CRUSH By Telegraph-Press Assn—Copyright < Ai»i»t. and N.Z. Cable). (Copyright from. Byrd Expedition). (Received Feb. 14, 9.5 a.m.) Bay of Whales, Feb. 12. The weather continues execrable and we are still beating up and down waiting for the storm. This is the seventh day of unrest.

Our position is complicated by the fact that this long and’unusual spell of wind from east and north has brought down a lot of heavy paekiee from iffie unknown region above ds, and so that we should, not be caught between it and thb bay of ice and be squeezed; we have had to thread our way through large floes and get entirely outside the bay into the open & sea.

We have almost lost track of the number of times w<v have left the bay ice to avoid being crashed against it by the sea, whereas Amundsen’s From left the hay only twice.