228 Pass Fury Beach. 



air 36 - 4. The fisli we obtained, though it had only 

 run out three hundred fathoms of line, was covered 

 with soft mud, and this was what induced me to 

 get a cast. 



In the evening we steamed through a stream of 

 pack ice into a large open water along the land, the 

 " Camperdown" following us. The way in which 

 we bored through the ice elicited the admiration of 

 the c ' Polaris's " men, Schumann, the engineer, 

 saying that if they had come across such ice they 

 would have made fast and remained until it opened. 

 He said if they had only had a man like Adams as 

 their sailing master, he felt convinced they would 

 have reached the North Pole. We passed a large 

 iceberg to-day apparently aground. I am at a loss 

 to conceive whence it comes, as to my knowledge 

 there are no discharging glaciers, nor, in fact, any 

 others in this neighbourhood. It must, therefore, 

 have drifted up from Lancaster Sound, or perhaps 

 even from Baffin's Bay. 



Saturday, August 2nd. — At six this morning we 

 passed Pury Beach, at a distance of about three or 

 four miles. I was very anxious to land, but the 

 captain was as anxious to look for fish, so we stood 

 on past Fury Point into Creswell Bay. With my 

 glass I could plainly perceive a quantity of stores, 

 which seemed to consist of casks, spars, and a heap of 

 what sailors would call gear. Two boats were seen 

 hauled up on the beach, but one appeared a perfect 



