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16th. At 3 P. M. ice cracked and opened alongside; secured ship by the stern with three hawsers. 



17th. Pieces of our floe began to break off, and at 11 A. M. the ship went adrift with them ; 3 P. M. 

 Bhipped rudder and stood to the eastward under double reefed mainsail and flying staysail. 



L8th. The ice closed about the ship at 3 A. M. ; sludge and bay ice only visible; several bergs in 

 Bight ; at 6 P. M. ship fast in young ice ; many mollymauks about, and a snow bunting seen. 



19th. Three bears seen ; several bergs in sight. 



20th. A considerable swell ; unshipped rudder at 3 A. M. ; the lofty clouds going to the westward 

 at P. M. ; a bear and a seal killed ; several small bergs in sight. 



21st. Tried for soundings with 170 fathoms. 



22d. Many small bergs near ; they change rapidly their bearings, as if the ship and pack were drifting 

 past them to the S. W. ; experienced a S. W. current. 



23d. A large black whale seen, also a seal; experienced a westerly set; several large seals lying 



on the ice. 



24th. 8 P. M. a swell from the S. E., and ice commenced to break up. 



25th. Swell rapidly increasing; ice striking against the ship; proceeded under sail and steam to the 

 eastward : noon, swell ten feet high ; ship receiving very violent and frequent shocks, and proceeding, 

 head to swell, through close heavy ice ; 6 P. M. swell thirteen feet high, ice less close, shocks still 

 more violent ; 8 P. M. cleared the ice, stopped engine, and made sail. 



26th. Mollymauks and kittiwakes abundant. 



21th. 7 A. M. saw the land about Sukkertoppan N. E. by 3ST. (true). 



28th. Anchored at llolsteinberg at 7 h - 30 m - P. M. in seventeen fathoms water, moored with hawsers 

 to the rocks. 



29th and 30th. In the harbor of Holsteiuberg. 



[Specific gravity of sea-water: — 



On the 7th, in 110 fathoms, 1.0295 (temp. 34°) ; 

 " 10th, " 120 " 1.0290 " 34°; 

 14th, " 110 " 1.0310 " 31°; 



in 5 fathoms, 1.0275 (temp. 30°). 

 "4 " 1.0275 " 30°. 

 " 4 " 1.0278 " 30.5°. 



21st, " 110 



1.0280 



31.5°.] 



