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2d. Beating to tbe westward through drifting ice; C P. M., Captain and party returned; bore up 

 to the eastward. 



3d. Midnight (2-3) four natives came on hoard ; endeavoring to beal Oul of Pond's Bay. 



lth. Found the Current to set westward along the north shore; whales seen. 



5th. Steaming from 4 until 7 P. M. ; then made fast to land ice, three miles southeast of Cape 

 Graham shore ; whale seen. 



7th. A bear shot. 



8th. A heavy gale with very heavy sea. 



10th. Many walrus seen; passed through a few streams of ice ; 9 P. M., rounded Cape llurd in 

 thick fog; grounded in the mouth of Rigby Bay; floated off; a bear shot. 



11th. A bear shot; anchored inside Cape Riley and commenced taking on board coals. 



12th. Loose ice in motion with the tide ; coaling from C. Riley and receiving stores from Beechey 

 Island. 



14th. Proceeded to Beechey Island ; anchored off the house in five fathoms. 



16th. Sailed for Cape Ilotham at 6 A. M., at 7 h - 30 m - off Cape Hothani depot, landed and brought 

 off two whale boats ; proceeded to the westward. 



17th. Steered for Peal Sound 9 P. M., Cape Granite N. 73° E., and Cape Lyons N. 56° W. ; 

 observed fast ice extending across the straits from about Cape Briggs to McClure Bay ; bore up for 

 Narrow Straits. 



18th. At 2 h - 15 ra - A. M., passed Limestone Island ; 4 P. M., off Cape McClintock ; 9 P. M., steam- 

 ing against a head-wind round X. E. cape ; midnight anchored in Port Leopold in seven fathoms ; 1' 

 N. X. W. of Whaler Point. 



19th. Examining stores on Whaler Point; 5 h - 30 m - P. M. made sail to the southward. 



20th. 10 h 30 m - A. M., passed Fury Point in a snow shower; 4 P. M., off Cape Garry; 8 h - 30 m -, 

 rounded the north point of Brentford Bay; observed a small cairn upon it; 10 h - 15 m -, anchored in a 

 bay four miles further west. 



21st. A bear shot ; made an attempt to pass through Bellot Straits, found it full of loose ice in rapid 

 motion with a very strong tide ; returned to Depot Bay ; erected a cairn and lauded a depot of 15 days 

 provisions. 



22d. A bearded seal shot. 



23d. Made another attempt to pass through Bellot Straits, found it choked ; ran to the southward 

 until stopped by fast ice ; anchored in a harbor on east side of Levesque Island at 4 P. M ; a herd of 

 reindeer seen on north shore of Bellot Straits, and two seen on shore here. 



24th. Made another attempt to penetrate Bellot Straits ; anchored in a small bay on the north shore, 

 about half way through at ll h - 15 m - P. M., a very unsafe position. 



25th. At 3 b - 30™ A. M., left anchorage and steamed west 4', but being unable to get further returned 

 to Depot Bay and anchored there at 8 P. M. 



2Gth. At 9 A. M., ran to the southward, anchored in Stillwell Bay? 7 fathoms soft mud; landed 

 120 rations in casks in lat. 71° 21' N. ; heavy streams of ice in the offing. 



27th. 9 A. M., made sail for Depot Bay ; working to windward between the streams of ice in the 

 offing and the land. 



28th. Very little ice seen this day. 



29th. Noon, anchored in Depot Bay in 10 fathoms water. 



30th. At 5 A. M. steamed into Bellot Straits, finding it still full of loose ice; anchored in a harbor 

 at the head of Port Kennedy at 10 h -30 m - A. M. in 11 fathoms; at 6 P. M. Captain and boat party 

 left the ship to examine the ice in Victoria Strait from the western hills ; a herd of deer seen and a 

 bearded seal shot. 



31st. Several deer seen inland. 



[Several Brent geese and Peregrine falcons shot on the 23d and 29th ; from the 1st to the 5th 

 whales were very numerous. — B. of T. Papers.'] 



