702 THE VOYAGE OF THE JEANNETTE. 



Breakfast to dinner .... 7 miles. 

 Dinner to supper .... 9 miles. 



Supper to camp 4 miles. 



Total, 20 miles. 



Wind E. Temperature 26°. 



August 12th, Friday. — Called all hands at six. 

 Breakfasted at seven (seal). Turned to at eight and 

 launched and loaded the boats. At 8.20 started ahead 

 and was forced to steer to the westward, and making 

 for two and a half hours about west southwest, then I 

 was able to haul up more to the southward, and made 

 about a south southwest course until twelve, when I 

 ran alongside a floe for dinner. Here we were seem- 

 ingly brought up by a closed lead, and I did not think 

 we had made more than four miles altogether. Ben- 

 nett Island showed plainly, its ice-cap towering up like 

 a dome, bearing north northeast, distance forty (?) 

 miles. Until I get sights again I cannot tell how far it 

 may be off. From our experience in underestimating 

 distances when going toward Bennett Island, we may 

 now have fallen into the habit of overestimating:. 

 Turned to at 1.15, and after breaking through a kind 

 of Suez Canal, got into a large opening which unfor- 

 tunately soon terminated, bringing us up against a solid 

 floe. I walked ahead while the sleds were being loaded 

 and the boats hauled up, and seeing a possible chance 

 of resuming our journey afloat, if only a little ice would 

 slack off, I kept everything fast from 2.20 to three, 

 when, seeing nothing gained, we went to work dragging 

 our sleds and boats a half mile " overland," reaching a 

 narrow lane of water at that point. We went south 

 about two miles, when we were stopped by jammed up 

 blocks of ice. It was no use to attempt such work, and 

 at six went alongside a hard floe, unloaded and hauled 



