ETAH TO CAPE SHERIDAN 47 



during the night returned the forenoon of the 30th 

 with eleven hares and six musk-oxen. Late in the 

 afternoon an unsuccessful attempt was made to reach 

 Lincoln Bay, from which we were driven back by 

 heavy floes moving southward, and at midnight we 

 were again in Wrangel Bay dodging about to keep 

 clear of the shifting ice, while past the capes the big 

 floes were going south with almost race-horse velocity, 

 the channel and simimits of all the land dark with fog. 

 The 31st was spent in the bay keeping clear of the 

 floes which swung into and around it, the night thick 

 with falling snow. Made an early start at 3:30 A. M. 

 September ist, in fog and a blinding snow-storm, and 

 steamed to the north side of Lincoln Bay, where the 

 unbroken pack again barred our passage and we 

 moored to the exposed face of the ice-foot. 



Again I quote from my journal: "A wild morn- 

 ing with snow driving in horizontal sheets across 

 the deck, the water like ink, the ice ghastly white, 

 and the land invisible except close to us as we 

 almost scrape against it on the port side. Summer 

 is at an end and winter has commenced." Scarcely 

 had we made fast to the ice-foot when the ice filled 

 the ba}^ completely. 



With the ebb-tide at night much of the ice inside 

 of us passed out, grazing against our side, but no lead 

 formed at the Cape and no opportunity occurred to 

 get north. 



With the turn of the flood, the ice came in again 

 with a rush, and the comer of a large floe caught the 

 stem, bent the back of the rudder over to the other side 

 and forced the ship bodily ashore. Here she hung 



