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on those who did the dragging. They were canght by 

 strategy to-day, however, and harnessed up ; but Tom 

 sUpped his harness quietly and bolted, while "Wolf 

 chewed his through and escaped. When caught they 

 were securely tied to a rope over the stern, and kept 

 there until ten r. m., when, in order that their howls 

 might not keep everybody awake, they were anchored 

 with an ice-claw some distance off. This disgusted 

 them. Tom took his punishment solemnly and quietly, 

 but Wolf yelled incessantly, so much so, that Tom got 

 provoked and thrashed him twice into silence. 



Position to-day, latitude N. 73' 42' 50'', longitude E. 

 178° 1', showing a drift since yesterday of three and 

 two tenths miles due E. Much fog and mist, and occa- 

 sional drizzling rain, throughout the day. About one 

 and a fourth miles N. W. of the ship there is a lane 

 of water one fourth mile in width, and extending W. 

 Mr. Dunbar plans going to it to-morrow and cruising 

 on it in our skin boat. This is the baidera received at 

 St. Michael's, which was originally forty feet long, but 

 we have cut it down to about twenty-five feet, making 

 it more portable, and when not in use easily hoisted 

 under our cutter. 



July Ibth, Thursday. — Mr. Dunbar started out this 

 morning, but soon returned, having found the lead of 

 yesterday all closed up. Thus do things change in this 

 part of the world. We made the discovery this morn- 

 ing that the ship had come up one inch forward, and 

 gone down an inch aft, caused probably by the encra- 

 dling underlying ice having melted sufficiently to 

 change the point of support farther forward. It will 

 give us something to watch from day to day. 



The forenoon gave us very fine weather. At noon I. 

 got the latitude, showing, I am sorry to say, a small 



