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Auguft. i<^^; we began again to conceive hopes that a brifk gale 

 * ' ' from that quarter would foon effedually clear u&. 



loth. The wind fpringing up to the NNE in the 

 morning, we fet all the fail we could upon the fhip, and 

 forced her through a great deal of very heavy ice : (lie 

 ftruck often very hard, and with one ftroke broke the 

 fhank of the beft bower anchor. About noon we had got 

 her through all the ice, and out to fea. I Itood to the 

 N W to make the ice, and found the main body juft 

 where we left it. At three in the morning, with a good 

 breeze Eafterly, we were Handing to the Weftward, be- 

 tween the land and the ice, both in fight; the weather hazey. 



I ith. Came to an anchor in the harbour of Smeerenberg, 

 to refrefli the people after their fatigues. We found 

 here four of the Dutch fhips, which we had left in the 

 Norway s when we failed from Vogel Sang, and upon 

 which I had depended for carrying the people home in 

 cafe we had been obliged to quit the fhips. In this Sound 

 there is good anchorage in thirteen fathom, fandy bottom, 

 not far from the fhore : it is well fheltered from all winds. 

 The ifland clofe to which we lay is called Amfterdam 

 Ifland, the Wefternmofl point of which is Hacluyt's 

 Head Land : here the Dutch ufed formerly to boil their 

 whale-oil, and the remains of fome conveniencies eredled 

 by them for that purpofe are flill vifible. Once they 

 attempted to make an eftablifhment, and left fome people 

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