298 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FiSH AND FISHERIES. [10] 



Date. 



July 28 



29 

 30 



31 



Aug. 1 



2 



3 



4 



Sept. 



Eutrios. 



Very modorate. Anchored and set trawls. Vp anchor and set at Grimsey 



Island t'," ■ ■ ■, 



Windy from southeast. Anchored at Grimsey Island ,■■"-;• 



Very moderate. Got under way, stood on the lishiug ground, anchored and 



set 



Fine, clear, and moderate ■ 



Very fine and moderate. Shiffed berths. Spoke the ("oncord 



Fos'gy in a. m., windv in v- ">• Anchored at Grimsey Lsland and lilled water . . 



Very stormy; easteiiv wind. Laving at anchor at Grimsey I.shind 



Easterly storm continues. .Still' aucliored at Grimsey Island. Got under 



way, hut anchored aiiuin ••-- 



Northeast wind and i'oggy. Up anchor and set under sail. Anchored in 



p. ra. and .set ,"'",'" 



Foizgy in a. m., with northerly wind. Up anchor and shitted a bei'th 



AVindy from southeast. Got under way, and am-hored again at Flatty Island. 



Very fine, moderate, and cleir .\ucliored on fishing ground and -set gear 



Very fine and moderate. Off Flatty Island. Filled water 



Wiiidy from the southeast. jNIadc two sets under sail 



Very fine. Under wav all clay ; sailing we.strrly 



Veiy line. Anchon-d and set. T'l. anclioi- and got un<ler way on Skaga K.mk. 



Disagreeable weather ; foguy. wilii eastcMly wind 



Fine wi-athn-, with variable' wiuds. Up anchor and shifted a bert4i 



Moderate, with rain. At 4 p. ni. weather fine. Vp anchor and shifted a berth . 

 Sontlirrly wind and tint' weather. Sliil'ted a berth, (iot un<ler v.ay at 7 p. m . 

 Under way standing to the westward. At 10 p. m. came to anchoriu Iso Fiord 



from which they return soon after, carrying lant in their heaks to feed their young. About the be- 

 gmuiiig ol Augiist the youno- murres take to thi! water. At first they cannot dive, and are cared for 

 with the utmost solicitude by their par.nts. Captain Ryan tells me that the old birds, when they 

 bud a vessel IS approaching theni and their offspring, make the most desperate efforts to protect the 

 yet feeble fledgling, and show their anxiety au.l concern by keeping up a continuous screaming. He 

 tells now, on one occasion his ves.sel was approaching a pair of old birds, which had between them their 

 little one. 1 he frantic efforts of the parents having f died to get the young one far from the path of the 

 vessel, one of the old liirds rose to tly ;ind made a desperate dash almost into the face of a man who 

 was looking over the schoonc»r s bow, ami which the unhappy bird appeared to think was the enemy 

 against which it must protect Us youuo-. tun 



