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and took up our 9th station at Cape Mary, near the same spot 

 which we had occupied on the 17th, after a most fatiguing row, 

 our progress having been much impeded by the bay ice. Some 

 whales were again seen this day. 



August 27. — Made for an inlet leading to the WNW. into 

 which we entered, and after pulling fifteen miles encamped at 

 our 10th station. I walked a few miles farther, where it turned 

 to the westward, and I have little doubt but that it joins the 

 inlet formerly mentioned as leading from the basin up Gael 

 Hamkes's bay. As the ascertaining of this point could lead to 

 no important result, and as the short period of an Arctic sum- 

 mer was fast elapsing, I reluctantly gave up any farther exami- 

 nation of it, though I may truly say that there was none of the 

 party that was the least tired of the expedition ; on the contrary, 

 the whole party were as fresh, and in as good spirits, as the first 

 day they started. A large bear was seen at a distance upon a 

 hill which we all eagerly pursued ; the animal, however, as soon 

 as he saw us, set off at a gallop much exceeding our ideas of 

 his speed, having imagined these animals to be slow and un- 

 weildy ; this was the first bear we had seen. 



August 28. — Made a distance of seventeen miles, and en- 

 camped at the same place we had halted the first night. 



August 29. — After a fatiguing pull of eighteen miles, our 

 progress being much impeded by bay ice, we reached the ship, 

 after an absence of thirteen days. AVe were happy to rejoin 

 our friends whom we found all well. The fine weather had been 

 favourable for Captain Sabine's observations, which were about 

 completed. 



August 30. — The obsex'vations were this day concluded, and 

 we lost no time in re-embarking the tents and instruments. La- 

 titude of the Observatory on Pendulum Island, 74° 32' 19" N. 

 Longitude 18" 50' 00" W. 



Sunday, August 31. — After performing divine service, we 

 got under weigh : the light winds still continuing, worked out 

 of the harbour, which we named Griper Roads after the ship ; 

 and the group of islands on which the observations were made, 

 received the name of the Pendulum Islands. A bold headland, 

 rising almost perpendicularly from the sea to the height of 3000 

 feet, marks the outermost of the Pendulum Islands. This cape 



