The drift went on until April 9 1916 when the floe, reduced to a triangle zoo yds.
The party therefore camped on the drifting floe, keeping up scientific observations and maintaining their health and spirits though in continual danger from the floes ridging up or cracking asunder.
27, when the expedition of 28 men with 49 dogs abandoned her and camped on the floe.
the drift of the " Deutschland " had turned sharp to the E., but that of Sir Ernest Shackleton's floe continued in the main due N.; the difference may have been due to the opposite seasons or to other causes.