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'? 7 ?- ftruc~tion fo well adapted to the purpofes for which they are 



v— -v intended, that they went with great expedition, and perfect 



fafety, over the ice, which it would have been impoflible 

 for us, with all our caution, to have pafled on foot. 



On our return, we found the boats towing the fliip toward 

 the village ; and at feven we got clofe to the ice, and 

 moored with the fmall bower to the North Eaft, and bell 

 bovver to the South Weft ; the entrance of the bay bearing 

 South by Eaft, and South three-quarters Eaft ; and the ojlrog 

 North, one quarter Eaft, diftant one mile and a half. The 

 Friday 30. next morning, the calks and cables were got upon the 

 quarter-deck, in order to lighten the fhip forward ; and the 

 carpenters were fet to work to flop the leak, which had 

 given us fo much trouble during our laft run. It was 

 found to have been occafioned by the falling of fome 

 fheathing from the larboard-bow, and the oakum between 

 the planks having been wafhed our. The warm weather 

 we had in the middle of the day, began to make the ice 

 break away very faft, which, drifting with the tide, had al- 

 moft filled up the entrance of the bay. Several of our gen- 

 tlemen paid their vifits to the Serjeant, by whom they were 

 received with great civility ; and Captain Clerke fent him 

 two bottles of rum which he underftood would be the mod 

 acceptable prefent he could make him, and received in re- 

 turn fome fine fowls of the groufe kind, and twenty trouts. 

 Our fportfmen met with but bad fuccefs ; for though the 

 bay iwarmed with flocks of ducks of various kinds, and 

 Greenland pigeons, yet they were fo fhy, that they could 

 not come within fhot of them. 



M»y, In the morning of ihc ift of May, feeing the Difcovcry 



Handing into the bay, a boat was immediately fent to her 



a Aula nee; 



