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such means, have also found their way to the huts of this 

 harmless people : and even the bargains effected by their 

 governors ' are so severe upon their miserable means, as to 

 make them little satisfied of their sense of justice. 



May 24: then 26°, 42°, 36°: wind S.W. fresh breeze: ship 

 moving among packed ice off Fortune Bay : light snow sometimes 

 falling: a dense ledge of cirrostratus in N.W. : lams marinus, tri- 

 dactylus and eburneus, in considerable numbei's around ; L. maximus, 

 as usual, a solitaiy individual : procellaria glacialis in great number : 

 ursus maritimus ; one killed to-day. 



May 25 : ther. 37°, 42°, 35°: wind N.E., light breeze : atmosphere 

 clear and dry : Disko unclouded : cirrus and ciiTocumulus at a very 

 great elevation : a fog bank, which is a dense and extensive accumula- 

 tion of cirrostratus, appeared to the northward ; this is said to be 

 stationary for several days, and when moviiig, proceeds like the 

 thunder-cloud against the wind : weather fine : this day a swell of 

 the sea was observed by the whalers, and hailed with joy, because 

 it helps to heave the surface so irregularly as to cause the field ice to 

 break up : it is produced by a gale blowing in some remote quarter 

 some days before : the direction of the swell could not as yet be 

 ascertained, as it was scarcely perceptible : the fog bank dispersed 

 within a few hours: sterna hirundo : Lievely bearing S.E. by S., 

 distant six or seven leagues, soundings were taken, twelve, twenty, 

 and forty fathoms, though the common sailing chart states the depth 

 in this place to be 130 fathoms: there is a dangerous difference 

 between. 



