28 PASSAGE UP 



1824. from six to twelve feet in length, having the 

 August, roots still attached to them, and but little in- 

 jured by the water. A great quantity of 

 looms^ dovekies, rotges, mallemuks, and kitti- 

 Avakes were seen, as ^v^s also one Peregrine 

 Falcon. 



The ship having but little way, our boats made 

 several trips to the floe ice for water, and we 

 were enabled, for the first time since leaving 

 Orkney, to allow the people sufficient to wash 

 their clothes, as we were unable to stow more 

 than six tons of water for our passage across the 

 Atlantic. In the afternoon, the flood tide having 

 made in our favour, we passed the East Bluff 

 with afresh north-east wind, and found the ice 

 heavier and closer as we advanced. At seven we 

 came to a pack of the largest ice we had yet seen, 

 having a number of bergs in it. Passing through 

 the narrowest part, about three miles, w^e came 

 to open water. I was led to imagine from the 

 way in which this ice trended, that it must 

 have entered the strait through the passage 

 between Resolution and the East Blufl^, and I 

 am the more inclined to this opinion, from re- 

 membering that while we lay for several days 

 beset off this place, in the Fury and Hecla, 

 the tide changed irregularly, and appeared to 

 have an independent set, as if running from 



