5th May
The largest wave I have ever seen in my 26 years at sea nearly destroyed our boat today. I pray it won't happen again.

24th April

I had abandoned the idea to go to Deception Island due to the state of my party. Instead, I will travel 1300km to South Georgia in the improvise James Caird with a small group of men. We are going to attempt the impossible.

15th April
Yesterday we reached the southeast coast of Elephant Island but could not land due to the cliffs. Today we went around and reached the northern shore, where we landed on a sliver of beach. We are saved.

9th April
We set off on the life boats towards Deception Island. I hope we will survive

8th April
Patience camp has ended. The ice floe broke up and we are now on a small triangular chunk of ice. I this breaks up then it will be disaster. I have decided that we will reach, if possible the distant Deception island due to its timber, from which we can build a new boat.

2nd February
Today I sent a larger party back to recover the third lifeboat. Food shortage had become acute and we shot all but two teams of dogs as the amount of seal meat required for them was too much.

28th December
Weather conditions haven't improved and we only achieved 12 km in these seven days and we have set up another camp, dubbed "Patience Camp".