id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
5199	Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir	South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files			.txt	text/plain	149749	8539	82	"Two sledging parties will operate from the base on the Weddell Sea. One will travel westwards towards Graham Land, making observations, the afternoon, but at midnight the ship was stopped by small, heavy icefloes, tightly packed against an unbroken plain of ice. I had never seen such a large area of unbroken ice in the Ross Sea. We waited with banked fires for the strong easterly breeze to moderate squally with snow-flurries, and I did not order a start till 11 p.m. The pack was still close, but the ice was softer and more easily east and south-west had no apparent effect upon the ice, and the ship have set the ice in strong movement towards the north, and the southwesterly and west-south-westerly winds that prevailed two days out of boat drifted down towards the ice-floe, where her position was likely S. The pack was well broken a mile from the ship, and the ice was	./cache/5199.txt	./txt/5199.txt