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was observed to issue from behind some heavy fog which 

 loaded the horizon to the southward, and to this succeeded 

 a brilHant display of polar coruscation beginning in the 

 south-east, and traversing the southern region to the north- 

 west. The wind about two hours afterwards shifted to the 

 southward, and continued increasing until evening when 

 it blew a hard gale with heavy rain. On this day, being in 

 about the latitude of Cape Farewell, the ship's log was 

 again resumed, which duty is suspended whilst the whale 

 ships remain in Davis's Strait, and is only observed in 

 crossing the ocean. 



Nothing of much importance during the voyage home. 

 Contrary winds, and frequent calms, made it very tedious, 

 as St. Kilda's came in sight not sooner than the 26th of 

 August, and it was joyfully hailed by the ship's crew. 



On the 5th of September, being kept in sight of land 

 beating about in an easterly wind till that date, the ship an- 

 chored in Stromness, whence, after a short stay in order 

 to land the Orkney sailors, she sailed for Hull, and on 

 the thirteenth of the same month, came to anchor in the 

 Humber within the Spurn Lights, 



THE END. 



