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wg g y g graphs, taken by Frank Hurley, photographer for the ex- pedition. The great ice floes, the shifting bergs and above all the treacherous cracks provided plenty of excitement for the hardy crew that manned ENpuRANCE,-Shackleton’s all fated ship. The ice pack gripped the ship early in the fall and she was ice locked for cight months while the mammoth floe zigsagged back and forth across the Weddell sea. The tremendous pressure exerted against the sides of the ship threatened many times to crush her. Finally, after being lifted bodily out of the ice and thrown on her side, as shown in the illustrations, she was so badly crushed that when the pressure relaxed, ENDURANCE slipped down into a crack and sank in the Weddell sea in October, 1915. 145