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our supper as he sat on the swill-bucket before his stove with one eye 

 on his letters and the other on the "salt-horse." Remarkable to say 

 Jack had more letters than anyone else. 



During the night we made some 25 miles in a thick fog with oc- 

 casional light southerly winds bringing rain. Morning found us half 

 way through the Straits. 



Position Straits of Belle Isle 

 Friday, September loth ^ Weather Cloudy and thick 



Wind Strong westerly 



BY running the motor for four hours in the morning and by the 

 help of a light easterly during the rest of the time, we reached 

 Amour Point and the wrecked British battleship by three o'clock. 

 We again had to start the motor and I was just beginning to think 

 that we would have to use all our gas very early in our passage to 

 Sydney, when suddenly the wind sprang up from the west good and 

 strong. There being a strong current in that part of the Strait, tide 

 lop soon formed and before we knew it we were beating into a 

 strong wind and going against a nasty sea. The fog which had been 

 present most of the day, cleared off at last and I went on the port 

 tack hoping to fetch into Blank Sablon for the night. The glass was 

 low and it looked like a miserable night. But when we neared the 

 shore the fog came in worse than ever and I soon saw it was hope- 

 less. So we took a sounding (30) fathoms and tacked. The wind 

 then let up and because of the sea we got nowhere. After dark we 

 went better, getting clear of most of the lop and the wind coming 

 strong again. It also soon cleared off making visible three lights in 

 quick succession. A very large steamer passed outward bound. As 

 we had no lights, I wonder what the men on watch thought they 

 saw tossing about on the waves. After the middle watch had come 

 on, the wind hauled NW and I went to bed expecting a good night's 



