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NOTES TO JULY RECORD. 



1st. Noon, the ship received a considerable nip, the floes being checked by a grounded berg ; rudder 

 damaged. 



2d. Several large seals on the ice; 4 P. M., water visible, started under steam and reached at 8 

 r. M. ; made all sail ; midnight lost sight of the pack. 



3d. Passing through loose ice ; a seal shot. 



4th. At midnight (4th-5th) fog cleared off, the pack close to leeward of us. 



5th. Sailing along the pack edge. 9 P. M., about 15 miles from Conical Island; bore up through 

 lane in the pack. 



6th. Sailing through heavy ice, thick fog at midnight. 



7th. Lying fast to a large floe in a confined space of water ; Cobourg Island visible to the north- 

 ward. 



8th. Noon, steamed about four miles to the west ; land visible from E. N. E. to N. ^ W. (magnetic.) 



9th. From 2 P. M. until 7 P. M. working through nips. 



10th. Noon, Cobourg Island in the N. "W. 15' or 18'; a seal shot. 



11th. 2 A. M., reached a large space of water with ice in shore; no ice in sight towards Jones' 

 Sound ; found the pack to rest against the land ; a black whale seen ; IIP. M., rounded Cape llors- 

 burg two miles off shore. 



12th. Made fast to land ice off DeRos Island and communicated with natives ; proceeded four miles 

 further into a large space of water ; found ice all around ; kept ship between the pack and the land 

 westward of Cape Osborne. 



13th. At 2 h - 20 m - A. M., made fast to land ice i- mile off shore in seven fathoms water ; the pack 

 fast driving up the sound and closing in. 



14th. The pack in the offing moving with the wind and tide; found a high water mark, a piece of 

 an oaken ship's timber 7x8 inches, with three nails and an iron bolt through it, much bleached 



