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looking at all the winter. Judging from the sk)\ it was 

 on the farther side of this headland that we should find 

 open water. We were very eager to see how the land lay 

 ahead of this point. If we were north of Cape Lofley, 

 the land must begin to trend to the southeast. If, on the 







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other hand, the trend of the coast was to the southwest, 

 then this must be a new land farther west, and near 

 Gillies Land. 



The next day (Thursday, May 21st) we reached this 

 promontory, and pitched our camp there. All through 



