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ward. During one day of the return (September 18th), a 

 distance was covered that had occupied, on account of un- 

 favorable winds alone, 11 days in going north; and on the 

 following day a distance to which six days had previously 

 been devoted. The other gains were smaller. 



The total distance sailed was about 2,100 miles, of which 

 not far from 1,400 were along the Labrador coast in the two 

 directions. The rate of travel, counting only the days on 

 which some progress was made, averaged 2)2)\ miles a day 

 on the way north, 55 miles on the way south, and about 42 

 miles for both together. 



It was possible to sail at all on only about half the days 

 devoted to the voyage ; and very nearly the same proportion 

 held for both the outward and the return voyage. Of the 

 days during which some progress was made, from one-third 

 to one-half were so unfavorable that a distance of less than 

 25 miles was covered. Thus, on the journey north, of the 

 59 days, only 31 permitted any sailing at all (and two of these 

 were without any real advance), only 25 saw a greater dis- 

 tance covered than 15 miles, and only 22 more than 25 miles. 

 On the return, during 19 days of the 29, some distance was 

 made, during 16 more than 15 miles, during only 14 more 

 than 25 miles. Going north (59 days), detention was due : 

 to ice-floes. 9 days (the ice proving a serious obstacle to 

 progress on several other days also), to unfavorable winds, 

 17 days, and to voluntary delay, 2 days. On 6 other days a 

 distance of less than 15 miles was covered. This makes a 

 total, not including the two days of voluntary detention, of 

 32 unfavorable days (more than half) on which it was impos- 

 sible to progress at least 15 miles. Going south (32 days, 

 counting 3 at Nachvak, on which it had been planned to sail), 



