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9th. 10 h 30 m A. M., weighed and proceeded out of tlie harbor under sail and steam ; noon, passing 

 south end of Long Island ; l 1 ' , passed between Brown's Island and off Lying Islet southeastward ; 2 h - 

 off Hazard Inlet ; 8 1 ' , off Mt. Oliver; 8 to 12, steering between pack and land. 



10th. 4 A. M., steaming past Cape Garry ; Creswell Bay clear of ice ; 11> 25 ln A. ML, made fast to 

 grounded ice in 3 fathoms, ,'> cable lengths off shore of Adelaide Bay; Fury Point 2' E. by N. (true); 

 a seal and several dovekies shot; white whales, ducks, and mollymauks seen; pack closing in; low 

 water 3 P. M. ; ebb sets lo S. W. along land ; high water near midnight; rise H feet. 



11th. A white whale shot, 13 feet 2 inches long; pack closing in Cresswell Bay. 



12th. Ice driving to southwestward ; no water visible in Cresswell Bay or in N. E. ; a seal seen ; 

 tide Mowed until midnight; water rose 10 feet. 



13th. Pack in offing driving southwestward; (4 A.M.) no water visible from toast-head, except 

 inside the space into which we are lying; a small seal and some dovekies shot ; many king ducks flying 

 northward ; high water at 12 h - 30 ,n - 



1 4th. 4 A. M., pack driving to southwestward ; many ducks flying northward. 



15th. Tide flowed until about l 1 ' 20">- A. M. ; at 5 h - 45'" P. M. Fury Beach bore W. (true) three 

 miles distant. 



16th. 2 h - 45 m A. M., off Batty Bay, free from ice; 9 A. M., off Elwin Bay; 3 h - 30 m - P. M., Cape 

 Sepping X. W. i W-, distant 6' ; ice seen extending from Leopold Island eastward. 



1 7 tli. A black whale and some narwhals seen ; Barrow Strait clear of ice as far as visible; 8 P. M., 

 passed a small sheet of ice. 



18th. Many narwhals about the ship; passing stream of loose ice; 9 h 30 m P. M , passing Admiralty 

 Inlet ; some pack or stream ice seen in shore. 



1 9th. 4 A. M., two miles off Wollaston Island : running among loose ice ; midnight (19-20), passing 

 round Cape Byam Martin, distant 4'. 



20th. Noon, off Cape Burney, distant H' ; a bear and two cups shot; 6 P. M., off Cape Graham 

 Moore. 



21st. No floe ice visible. 



22d. Some rotchies seen ; passed several bergs. 



23d. 75 bergs in sight; saw some stream ice in eastward. 



24th. A few bergs in sight; 9 P. M. , saw the laud about Swarte Ilook. 



25th. A linback whale seen ; rotchies seen. 



26th. Saw the land about Mellem Fiord ; 4 P. M., off Disco Fiord. 



27th. 2 A. M., anchored in Godhavn Harbor in H fathoms. 

 Specific gravity of sea water — 



21st. 1.0278. 24th. 1.0270. 



22d. 1.0275. 25th. 1.0265. 



23d. 1.0262. 26th. 1.0275. 



31st. [Aurora slight in S. W. (true) at 11 P. M.—B. of T. Papers.] 



