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Considering here only the more generally interesting cir- 

 cumstances of my journal, I may observe that, at Lievely, 

 which we approached on the 12th of May, the Danish go- 



his canoe on his head, passed over the ice, and visited two ships which 

 were in-shore flinching : some very large bergs in sight surrounded by 

 field ice : the cold this evening increased very much ; snow fell at 

 times, thick and hard. 



May 9: tlier. 15", 25°, 16"; wind S.E., fresh breeze: much snow 

 fell during the preceding night : appearance of cloud cirrus fine, 

 comoid and undulate : cirrocumulus and cirrostratus during the day, 

 apparently near Disko, yet many miles distant from that island : 

 thermometer exceedingly variable throughout the course of the day, 

 till 10 p. m. M^hen the last observation was noted : in the evening 

 a yellowish white cloak of cirrostratus was spread over the summit of 

 Disko : this colour is invariably communicated to the atmosphere 

 where bergy ice is present : larus maximus and procellaria glacialis 

 in scanty number, also a very few of larus tridactylus : thermometer 

 at midnight 12''. 



May 10: ther. 19°, 16°, 15°: wind S., light breeze: freezing in- 

 tensely : sea nearly tranquil ; the surface congealed in extensive fields, 

 which are interrupted by spaces kept free by the action of the wind : 

 cumulostratus to the eastward ; a fine, highly illumined stratus to the 

 southward ; all else clear of cloud, but of a milky blue : the light in- 

 tolerable to the eye : at 8 a. m. the influence of the sun having raised 

 a light vapour from the surface of the ice, this became immediately 

 condensed by the intense cold ; and, drifting along the surface of the 



