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Esquimaux dogs, that had been on the ice for these 
three days past ; but, notwithstanding most of the 
ship’s company were sent after him, he was so 
wild that it was impossible to get hold of him ; 
rather, therefore, than leave him to starve, he was 
shot. 
Monday, 18th.— The weather still continues 
foggy, and we meet with a considerable quantity 
of floe ice, some of which is heavier than any that 
I remember having seen in Davis’s Straits before. 
In order to avoid danger, we therefore make fast 
during the night. We sounded to day in eight 
hundred and ninety seven fathoms ; no bottom. 
Friday, 22d.— Nothing of any importance has 
occurred during these four days past : the weather 
has been generally foggy; and our progress to the 
southward has been very much impeded by the 
ice, which, as I have already remarked, is heavier 
than we have been accustomed to meet with 
in these seas. Several of the floes that we have 
passed lately were from two to three feet above 
the surface of the water, which, from the differ- 
ent experiments we have made on the specific 
gravity of ice, would make the thickness of these 
floes, from fifteen to twenty feet. We had an 
eclipse of the moon this morning ; but from the 
impossibility of observing the immersion or emer- 
sion, with any degree of correctness on board of 
ship, nothing was deduced from it in the way of 
determining our longitude. We spoke the ship 
Ellison of Hull, during the night, with fifteen fish 
on board. 
Saturday, 30th. — This week past has been as 
