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turned back to take one more station half-way between H and I. 

 We completed this by eight -thirty and the rest of the night beat 

 slowly into light westerlies. There are almost no more empty bot- 

 tles so it is just as well that we did not have to make more stations. 

 Our total distance off shore was about 90 miles. 



Jack has been watching the barometer like a cat. Although I 

 don't enjoy rough weather oflF this coast any more than he does, I do 

 wish we would get some wind. I have noticed that off shore there is 

 either almost no wind at all or more than you can use. The wester- 

 lies and northwesterlies do not seem to extend more than twenty 

 miles off shore. On the other hand when sailing along under the 

 land one has to be most careful of the westerlies, for they can come 

 down off the hills in terrific puffs. 



We have seen very little ice on this trip. What there was of it 

 (about 20 bergs) lay about 15 miles off the coast. 



The gulls are most tame and all day long circle round and round 

 the boat. • 



I Position Section off NcLchvaJi 

 Saturday, August zist < Weather Clear 



I Wind Calm 



ANOTHER flat day. The roll slats what little wind there is out 

 xjL of the sails. By noon we had used up the last of the gas in the 

 tanks. Bob and John cleaned out the two upper tanks. During the 

 day I worked on the current-meter which is now nearly finished. I 

 do hope we have a few calm nights on the way home and get a 

 chance to use it. We all feel pretty badly having lost the one Dr. 

 Bigelow gave us and a few observations with this one would ap- 

 pease him perhaps. 



This afternoon was really the first time all summer that we have 

 wanted power and not used it. We still have one hundred gallons 

 left, but I think it better to save it for working in unchartered shoal 



