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let, from the residence of my friend and relative Lord John 

 Campbell. Having hoisted the boat on board, we made all sail 

 to the S. W. In the afternoon the wind increased, with heavy 

 squalls off the land, and the ship was reduced to close-reefed top- 

 sails ; hauled to the wind on the starboard tack, the ice having 

 changed its former position ; set the mainsail to prepare to wea- 

 ther a floe of ice. At four we ran through a narrow passage be- 

 tween the land and ice, in one place forming scarcely more than 

 a ship's breadth off shore ; we sounded a quarter less 4. At 

 five sent a boat to sound, and stood off and on till her return. 

 We anchored in 3| fathoms a quarter of mile from the shore, 

 between two islands. 



13th. — Strong gales, with heavy squalls off the land ; the ship 

 drove, but brought up by letting go the small bower. Upon 

 the gale moderating, hove in the starboard cable, and found the 

 best bower gone by the ring. I dispatched a party on shore 

 to take distant bearings from the hills, and a boat to sound for a 

 secure berth for the ship. In the afternoon we weighed, but 

 the ship almost immediately grounded in 2^ fathoms ; and be- 

 fore the stream-anchor could be laid out to heave her off, the 

 tide fell so much as to give a considerable heel to port. We 

 landed several articles to lighten her ; the night ^VBS fortunately 

 calm ; we laid out another warp to heave her off at high water. 



I'ith. — We hove the ship off next morning, and towed her 

 about a mile farther up the bay, where she was safely moored. 

 We proceeded immediately to land the observatory and tents, 

 and parties were employed on shore setting them up. 



15th. — Next day was employed in landing the instruments, 

 and in preparing the yawl and wherry for a distant excursion, to 

 examine the coast whilst Captain Sabine was engaged in his 

 observations. 



16th. — I left the ship at noon, with two boats, provisioned for 

 three weeks. Our party consisted of three of my officers and 

 sixteen men. The weather being calm, we pulled along shore till 

 8 p. M., much impeded by the bay-ice, the sure companion of a 

 calm in these latitudes. Having come a distance of eighteen 

 miles, we landed at Cape Borlase Warren, which forms the 

 northern entrance of a large bay, where we pitched our tents 

 for the night. With a stove in each of them, and wrapped up 



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