06 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
however, of the delay occasioned by it, for although 
it has indeed prevented us from making a straight 
course to the westward, it is not so compact as to 
obstruct us entirely, or indeed to prevent us from 
making very considerable progress through the lanes 
or channels that intersect it. But before I enter any 
farther into a detail of the occurrences of this day, 
I must observe, that we are in the southernmost of 
the two passages mentioned yesterday afternoon ; 
the land between them, indeed, appears to be only 
an island, for we found after getting round the S. E. 
end of it, that it trended away to the northward and 
westward. On the east end of this island, if I may 
venture to call it so, there are two remarkable hills, 
resembling at a distance two boats, bottom up: from 
this circumstance, the headland on which they 
are situated, obtained the name of Boat Cape. 
Three or four leagues to the westward of this island, 
there is another smaller island, which differs from 
the former in its general features ; in the first place 
it is lower, and in the next place its surface is more 
regular, and its coast is not bounded by rocks like 
that on which we landedyesterday; in this last respect, 
indeed, both these islands differ from the north land, 
for neither of them, as far as we have yet seen, 
have what is usually termed, a bold coast. The 
whole of the space between them is full of ice, 
the most part of which appeared to be one floe, 
whose surface differed from what we have generally 
seen before, for it was full of round hummocks, 
that rose between two and three feet above the 
surface: it was remarked also, that this ice was 
much heavier than any we have previously seen this 
