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snow lying in the hollows close down to the sea. A 

 few hours after noon we passed the lighthouse of 

 Orlobka, a slight mirage causing it at first to look 

 double. Between 12 and 1 p.m. the wind suddenly 

 shifted to the North, and it became icy cold, with the 

 thermometer at 48 in the sun, when yesterday it was 

 92. In the afternoon came thick fog, and the steam- 

 whistle had to be blown. Bottle-nosed Whales (Globi- 

 cephalus soineval) were seen, and a Glaucous Gull 

 hovered close overhead. The lead heaved, showed a 

 sandy shelly bottom at about forty fathoms, and at 

 8 p.m. the log showed 310 miles from Archangel. 



August 6. 



We ran all Tuesday, the 6th of August, and night 

 with all sails and half steam at about ten and a half 

 knots before a strong breeze and in thick mist, and on 

 Wednesday, the 7th of August, we passed about 

 seven miles off the North Cape, a fine headland, with 

 the strata twisted and distorted in every conceivable 

 direction. 



The 8th, Thursday, was a disagreeable day of heavy 

 rain with head winds and a heavy swell. The 9th, 

 Friday, was a beautiful day. We saw a peak or two 

 of the Lofodden Isles in the distance. We observed 

 numbers of Fulmars, an Eider Drake, a flock of Terns 

 (Arctic Terns with one Common Tern), Eichardson's 

 or Arctic Skuas, one Long-tailed Skua, Puffins, Eazor- 

 bills and Kitti wakes, and two large black Petrels, which 

 were probably Great Shearwaters. 



August 10. 



On Saturday, the 10th of August, we saw in the evening 

 a couple of large whales, probably Balanoptera musculus, 



