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no night whatever. The Dane was dressed in the Uskee 

 costume, and was verj^ communicative. Others of the 

 natives came in the course of the day for the purposes of 

 barter. Some of these were boys ; and one, of Norwegian 



July 1: ther. 24°, 33°, 30°: wind N.E., light breeze: the fog 

 continues still very dense, leaving a deposit of minute icy particles, 

 which, accumulating, formed aculeated crystals, resembling very ex- 

 actly the thorns on the ulex (furze) : being in the vicinity of ice, 

 during this day, the atmosphere continued in a low degree of tem- 

 perature ; yet, to the sense, the cold was not severe : proceUaria 

 glacialis, colymbus troile, and a shoal of delphinus leucas : the latter 

 is not an object considered worthy the pursuit of the whalers, as 

 being infinitely less productive than the Bal. mysticetus ; besides they 

 look upon such employment as quite inadequate to balance the ex- 

 pense : for this reason they merely amuse themselves looking on at 

 the gambols of that beautiful animal. 



July 2 : ther. 26°, 33°, 28° : wind N. E., fi-esh breeze : ship stand- 

 ing in for the Frow Islands : Berry's Island about ten miles to the 

 northward : a thin stratus only visible in the horizon, with a wreck 

 of the fog, forming a deep brown fold in the N.E. : immense bergs 

 towering above the summits of the islands : some fine apjjcarance of 

 comoid ciiTus at noon : the change of position of the ship was owing 

 to the drifting of the ice which now began to descend very rapidly, 

 and it would be extremely dangei'ous to remain within its course ; for 

 which reason the ships in general sought the shelter of the islands, 

 which might ward off the mischief : this being field ice, with a few 



