noon
These are the principal attempts which have been made at penetrating to a high southern latitude , and it will now be seen that there remained , previous to the voyage of the Jane , nearly three hundred degrees of longitude in which the Antarctic circle had not been crossed at all . Of course a wide field lay before us for discovery , and it was with feelings of most intense interest that I heard Captain Guy express his resolution of pushing boldly to the southward . We kept our course southwardly for four days after giving up the search for Glass 's islands , without meeting with any ice at all . On the twenty-sixth , at noon , we were in latitude 63 degrees 23 ' S. , longitude 41 degrees 25 ' W . We now saw several large ice islands , and a floe of field ice , not , however , of any great extent . The winds generally blew from the southeast , or the northeast , but were very light . Whenever we had a westerly wind , which was seldom , it was invariably attended with a rain squall .