Shortly before noon further progress was barred by heavy pack, and we put an ice-anchor on the floe and banked the fires.
It came sailing swiftly by, and into it they planted an ice-anchor attached to a tow line.
Then began a heart-breaking task of warping through the pack with ice-anchor, cable and winch.
The cable and the ice-anchor, the latter a heavy piece of iron, shaped like the letter S, excited much interest.
It condescendingly offered to do tugboat service for the "Advance," and invited its captain to throw aboard an ice-anchor.
