34 THE LOG OF THE 



sinker. The line had chafed through on the side of the dory. Bart 

 had noticed the place but thought the line still plenty strong enough. 



Position Off Cape Makkpvick, 

 Tuesday, August ^rd <J Weather Clear and warm 



Wind Calm to fresh northwesterly 



EVERY possible kind of grappling apparatus was used during the 

 morning in an effort to raise the current-meter. There was no 

 wind at all and the sea was like glass so we had perfect conditions. 

 But the water was 70 fathoms deep and it was very hard to tell 

 how much the dory had swung on her anchor line. We finally gave 

 up and a new meter has been laid down on paper which we all 

 think will be very much better. The old one seemed quite inaccurate 

 for low speeds. Anyway we have readings for 10 hours which is 

 more than anyone else has. 



My idea was to get to Makkovick by dark (the last telegraph 

 station) but we ran into some strong current and the wind behaved 

 badly so we had some twelve miles still to go at bed time. During 

 the early night there was a nice SE wind and as we were making 

 such good time I thought it best to run right on. During the "two 

 Johns'" watch (12-4) we lay hove to for a while as the bergs were 

 thick and the night cloudy and dark. It is interesting that in these 

 waters it does not get dark, even on a cloudy night, until ten o'clock 

 and at two it is already getting light again. However, both the 

 sunset and sunrise are very prolonged so that there is a long period of 

 half light. There are then but four hours out of the twenty-four that 

 we have to be particularly careful about ice. 



In the early morning we had a cracking good breeze which soon 

 kicked up a swell. The poor skiff which we were still towing, was 

 given one wonderful ride. In spite of the mist and cold we were all 

 glad to be making such good time. 



