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be entirely separated from the other. Here we met 

 with an incredible number of birds, all as the hawk 

 kind before described. 



We had baffling light winds all the afternoon, so 

 that we made but little progress ; and the weather 

 was not clear enough to enable us to determine the 

 extent of the land before us. We supposed it to be 

 one of the many islands laid down by Mr. Stsehlin 

 in his map of the New Northern Archipelago ; and 

 we expected every moment to see more of them. 



At four in the afternoon of the 30th, Point Upright 

 bore north-west by north, six leagues distant. About 

 this time a light breeze springing up at north north- 

 west, we stood to the north-east till four o'clock next 

 morning, when the wind veering to the eastward, 

 we tacked and steered to the north-west. Soon after 

 the wind came to the south-east, and we steered 

 north-east by north ; which course we continued, 

 with soundings from thirty-five to twenty fathoms, 

 till next day at noon. At this time we were in the 

 latitude of 60 58', and in the longitude of 191. 

 The wind now veering to north-east, I first made a 

 stretch of ten leagues to the north-west ; and then, 

 seeing no land in that direction, I stood back to the 

 eastward about fifteen leagues, and met with nothing 

 but pieces of drift-wood. The soundings were from 

 twenty-two to nineteen fathoms. 



Variable light winds, with showers of rain, pre- 

 vailed all the 2d ; but fixing in the south-east quarter, 

 in the morning of the 3d, we resumed our course to 

 the northward. At noon we were, by observation, 

 in the latitude of 62 34', our longitude was 192 \ 

 and our depth of water sixteen fathoms. 



Mr. Anderson, my surgeon, who had been linger- 

 ing under a consumption for more than twelve months, 

 expired between three and four this afternoon. He 

 was a sensible young man, an agreeable companion, 

 well skilled in his own profession ; and had acquired 

 considerable knowledge of other branches of science, 



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