THE NEW SIBERIAN ISLANDS. 743 



time. Cook seasick, then Mr. Collins at supper time. 

 At six wind and sea moderating. Water ration, one 

 pint each meal. 



September 8th, Thursday. — At 1.30 ran into loose, 

 streaming ice. Bothered and delayed until 4.30, when 

 wind was found to be S. E. Ran alongside Hoe, and held 

 on until daylight. Then slipped and ran southwest. 

 Soundings in ten and a half fathoms. Strong wind, 

 rough sea. Everybody cold, wet, and miserable. No 

 sleep. At six weather changed. Bright sky, light 

 S. E. wind. Warm sun. Barometer 29.85 at 40°. Got 

 latitude at noon 74° 41', north of Barencap. Evidently 

 running before southeast gale some time before I dis- 

 covered the fact of the wind having changed. During 

 afternoon steered a course S. S. W. until four p. m., 

 when, meeting a solitary floe drifting around, I had pity 

 on the wet and exhausted creatures around me, and 

 hauled out and camped. Sights place us in 136° 42'. 



September 9th, Friday. — Called all hands at four 

 A. M. Somewhat better after our rest, but still wet and 

 cold. Light S. wind. An island in sight, bearing S. 

 57° E., distant fifteen to twenty miles. Is this Stol- 

 bovoi? Temperature 33°. Under way 6.20. Oars 

 and sometimes sail. Ran alongside floe at eleven for 

 dinner. Soundings seventeen feet. Stolbovoi Island 

 bears S. 89° E. (magnetic). 



A very suspicious looking mass of hummocks resem- 

 bling land bore S. 19° E. (magnetic). Got latitude at 

 noon 74° 19'. Light S. by W. breeze, with occasional 

 rain or snow. Under way 12.15. At 2.30 encountered 

 immense area of loose floe pieces, extending to the ho- 

 rizon east and west. Pierced it southwest in a neck 

 about half a mile in width. At 3.30 sighted a low 

 block island to westward. Ran towards it. Calm. At 



