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collect in flocks from twelve to twenty in number. 

 The barometer is down to 29*4 inches, with an over- 

 cast sky gradually lowering and heavy cumulus clouds 

 over Eobeson Channel, denoting a south-west wind 

 before long. 



6 There are now only eighteen scurvy patients left 

 under the doctor's care, and of these six are nearly con- 

 valescent. 



' 3lst. — Snow was falling all last night with calm 

 misty weather. At 4 a.m. wind set in suddenly from 

 the south-west. Expecting it to continue, steam was 

 got up, and after five hours of hard work with the ice 

 the ship was pushed through a narrow opening, and 

 was again under steam after an eleven months' rest.' 



VOL. II. 



