This is an interesting example of how Shackleton modeled the attitude and behavior he wanted his crew to assume:
Orde-Lees' Journal, December 18, 1914
Our progress is very slow, but we are in Lat. 62,41 now having made 35 miles yesterday. Sir Ernest must be anxious, though he entirely conceals it and appears to be as jovial as ever. He is up night and day and frequently up the mast in the crow's nest for there is nearly always an officer up there now scanning the horizon searching for patches of open water. We are now up against ice which we are often unable to break, if fact there are really no separate floes at all, the ocean seems like one great solid desert snowfield with patches of water here and there. How we get through it at all is a wonder, for our progress now is more like going overland across very rough country in a huge slow-moving steam wagon. We are not making a mile an hour. Sir Ernest had been expecting to reach an open sea, but it never comes. We are burning a good deal of our valuable coal and we cannot afford to stand still.
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