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NOTKS TO MAY HKCORD. 



1st. At Holsteinburg. 



8th. Sailed from Holstcinburg at I 1 '- A. A!. 



9th. Much ice about ; white whale seen ; specific gravity of sea water, surface, 1.0270. 



10th. Midnight (Oth — 10th) off Northstrora Fiord; icebergs and ice about; noon, off Rifeal ; at 

 7 h - 15" 1 -, when 8 miles from Godhavn, stopped by ice extending in to the land; thick fog and snow 

 came on ; very narrowly escaped running on the 1S T . W. of the Whalcfish Islands. [Passed moro than 

 500 bergs.] 



1 lth. Anchored at Whalefish Islands in 12^ fathoms. 



15th. G P. M., prismatic halo around sun about 45° diameter, two lateral parhelia, some polarization; 

 also an arch 15° above horizon, apparently of a circle of same diameter as halo, opposite the sun. 



ICth. Godhavn Harbor and entrance tilled with packed ice. 



17th. V- 30 m - P. M., anchored in Upernavik, Back Bay, in 10| fathoms. 



24th. Left Upernavik, and steamed to Godhavn. 



25th. Steamed out of Godhavn at 4 h - 30 m - A. M. 



26th. 6 A. M., entered the AVaigat; 4 h - 30™-, anchored off the coal seam in 7 fathoms; one-third 

 of a mile off shore. 



27th. Proceeded under steam northward at ll h - 50 m - P. M. 



28th. Passed out of the AVaigat, steering for Black Hook. 



29th. At 5 h - 30 m - P. M. off Black Hook, Sanderson's Hope ahead ; many bergs in sight. 



31st. 7 A. M., hove to off Sanderson's Hope ; 10 u - 30 m - A. M., bore up for Upernavik. 



At 1^ fathoms, 275. 



