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snow lying in the hollows close down to the sea. A 

 few hours after noon we passed the lighthouse of 

 Orlobka, a slight mirage causing it at first to look 

 double. Between 12 and 1 p.m. the wind suddenly 

 shifted to the North, and it became icy cold, with the 

 thermometer at 48° in the sun, when yesterday it was 

 92°. In the afternoon came thick fog, and the steam- 

 whistle had to be blown. Bottle-nosed Whales (Glohi- 

 cephalus soineval) were seen, and a Glaucous Gull 

 hovered close overhead. The lead heaved, showed a 

 sandy shelly bottom at about forty fathoms, and at 

 8 p.m. the log showed 310 miles from Archangel. 



August 6. 



We ran all Tuesday, the 6th of August, and night 

 with all sails and half steam at about ten and a half 

 knots before a strong breeze and in thick mist, and on 

 Wednesday, the 7th of August, we passed — about 

 seven miles off — the North Cape, a fine headland, with 

 the strata twisted and distorted in every conceivable 

 direction. 



The 8th, Thursday, was a disagreeable day of heavy 

 rain with head winds and a heavy swell. The 9th, 

 Friday, was a beautiful day. We saw a peak or two 

 of the Lofodden Isles in the distance. AVe observed 

 numbers of Fulmars, an Eider Drake, a flock of Terns 

 (Arctic Terns with one Common Tern), Richardson's 

 or Arctic Skuas, one Long-tailed Skua, Puffins, Eazor- 

 bills and Kitti wakes, and two large black Petrels, which 

 were probably Great Shearwaters. 



August 10. 

 On Saturday, the 10th of August, we saw in the evening 

 a couple of large whales, probably BalcEuoptera musculus, 



