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bite. Afternoon ; got under way again, but calm, and 

 adverse tide, so at 8 p.m. anchored. 



August 10. 1.30., tried once more to reach Round 

 Island. 3.0, sighted Semmoline. 4 a.m., they all came 

 on board. They had cruised among the Thousand 

 Islands and landed on Ryk Island without seeing walrus or 

 bear. From the latter place all was ice to the N. They 

 then stood out to the eastward in hopes of finding a 

 channel, and sighted Gillies' Land, the country English 

 geographers don't believe in. Ice came drifting down 

 upon them 9 knots an hour and they had to run. They 

 got 7 seals. 



7 a.m., Semmoline anchored alongside ; transhipped 



10 a.m., both vessels off for Ice Sound again. 

 Tumbling sea ; N.E. wind ; rain and snow ; thick 

 evening. 



August 11. 2 a.m., sighted land. Strong wind with 

 snow. 6 a.m., hauled up for S. Cape. 8.0, rounded S. 

 Cape. Much heavy ice. Noon : constantly running to 

 S.W., skirting ice. Semmoline still ahead ; with a wind 

 " straight in behind " she can go faster than Sultana. 

 Fine evening. Water at noon, 34 ; at 7 p.m., 43. 

 (Gulf Stream ) 



August 12. Fresh breeze, and fine. Keeping away 

 still S.W. (N.B. On my map I have not allowed for our 

 deviations, but merely put the general course) to avoid 

 tongues of ice. Pilot very desponding about ice ; thinks 

 it is all coming up behind us from the N.E., and will run 

 up the W. coast. It turned out afterwards that he 

 mistook the land about Horn Sound for Bell Sound, 40 

 miles further up. We had not had a good look at it. 

 Pike-headed Whales playing about and under ship. 



August 13. Still bearing to westward to avoid ice ; 

 light airs. 



Sunday, August 14. Standing up for Ice Fjord. 

 11 a.m., sighted Semmoline astern. Fresh breeze blowing 

 out of Sound. 2 jagts in Green Harbour. 3 p.m., 

 towing with boats. 5, anchored in Safe Haven, nearly 



