572 THE VOYAGE OF THE JE ANNETTE. 



the ship was found to decrease, a small stream trickling 

 aft being all that could be seen. 



There being many large spaces of water near us. and 

 the ice having a generally broken up appearance, it 

 was concluded to ship the rudder, to be ready for an 

 emergency awaiting the moving of the ship. After 

 some trouble in removing accumulations of ice around 

 the gudgeons the rudder was shipped, and everything 

 cleared away in the wake of the booms and yards for 

 making sail. 



As well as could be judged by looking down through 

 the water under the counters, there was no injury 

 whatever to the after body of the ship. As soon as 

 possible a bow line and quarter line had been got out, 

 and the ship secured temporarily to the ice which re- 

 mained on her starboard side as nearly in the same 

 berth as she could be placed. By looking down through 

 the water alongside the stem on the port side, one of 

 the bow straps near her forefoot was seen to be sprung 

 off, but otherwise no damage could be detected. It 

 was assumed by me that the heavy ice which all along 

 bore heavily against the stem had held the plank ends 

 open at the garboarcls, and that as soon as the ship was 

 able to move from the heavy ice the wood ends came 

 together again, closing much of the opening and reduc- 

 ing the leak ; the water-line, or rather water-level, being 

 below the berth deck. No difficulty was anticipated in 

 keeping the ship afloat and navigating her to some port, 

 should she ever be liberated from the pack ice of the 

 Arctic Ocean. 



Sounded in thirty- three fathoms, bottom mud. Rapid 

 drift W. S. W. 



June 11th, Saturday, ship's date {June 12th, Sim- 

 day, correct elate). — At 7. 30 a. m. the ice commenced to 



