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About four o'clock we were able to stop the motor and as the sea 

 was like glass, the little southerly gave us good speed. There was 

 quite an argument over the height of one berg so I measured it with 

 a sextant. It turned out to be 75 ft. and two and a half miles away. 

 Opinions had varied up to 200 ft. and six miles away. 



The wind only held until a little after midnight. Since the phos- 

 phorescence was extremely brilliant I made a haul with a No. 20 net. 

 The bottle came up glowing like a searchlight and the sides of the 

 net were just a mass of glow. But the light had a distinctly fishy 

 smell and when I had finally shrunk it into a flask, it died out. The 

 formalin stopped it after three minutes. 



In the early morning Oily and I saw a berg roll over. The sunrise 

 was by far the best so far and very prolonged. We made almost 

 nothing between midnight and breakfast. 



Position Entered White Bay 

 Saturday, July lyth ^ Weather Clear and warm 



Wind Very light 



GULL ISLAND light had been sighted at ten o'clock last night, 

 yet it was ten o'clock this morning before we finally passed it. 

 Because of its height (463 ft.), the light was visible about 30 miles. 

 This morning over 150 bergs were counted from the deck. As there 

 was a mirage over half the horizon, the bergs assumed the most fan- 

 tastic shapes. Some just seemed like tall pinnacles while above others 

 a white cloud like a puff of smoke kept coming and going. The wind 

 was very light and from the SE but we were anxious to save gas 

 and so we just sat and wished for a blow and talked about the winds 

 we expected in September. 



John and Oily ripped poor Johnny's rifle to pieces during the after- 

 noon. They did it much too fast and it was just luck that they got 

 all the pieces in place again. Johnny tried it out by bombarding a berg. 



