24.4 A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
Wednesday, 2d. — The wind being still adverse, 
our advance to the westward was, as yester- 
day, very slow; and in the afternoon it veered 
round to the southward, and, consequently, soon 
set the ice in with the land, so that we were 
obliged, at four o’clock, to make fast to a hum- 
mock aground near the shore. 
Thursday, 3d.——The weather was foggy most 
part of this day ; and, the ice being close in with 
the land, we have not moved from the place where 
we brought up yesterday. It has been observed, 
since we made fast here, that the flood-tide comes 
from the westward, and that the time of high- 
water corresponds with that in Winter Harbour. 
Friday 4th.— The wind having veered round to 
the N. W. this forenoon, the ice soon began to 
drive off from the land, and by one o’clock in the 
afternoon we cast off and made sail. As we ad- 
vanced to the westward, we found the channel to 
be gradually widening, so that, about midnight, 
we were in as great a space of clear water as we 
ever observed before off this part of the island, 
and, in the opinion of some, more, indeed, than 
we found last year; for the ice was estimated to- 
night to be, at least, four miles and a half, or five 
miles, off the coast; and as to the extent of this 
channel to the westward, we had the pleasure of 
seeing no end to it in that direction, and, to add 
to this, we had a fresh breeze of wind in our fa- 
vour, and fine clear weather. About midnight we 
got abreast of the place where we were stopped 
so long by the ice, at the time the Griper’s party 
lost their way, in the month of September last. 
