JUNE 22 TO AUGUST /j, i8gs 



643 



floated considerably lighter upon the water than before, as three 

 oak planks were clear to starboard, and somewhat more to port, 

 with nine bow-irons clear forward. So far as we could see, her 

 hull had suffered no damage whatever, either from the many and 

 occasionally violent pressures to which she had been subjected, 

 or from the recent launching. 



The only fault about the vessel was that she still leaked a 

 little, rendering it necessary to use the pumps frequently. For a 

 short time, indeed, she was nearly tight, which made us inclined 

 to believe that the leakage must be above the water-line, but we 

 soon found we were in error about this, when she began to make 

 more water than ever. 



For the rest, she was lying very well now, with the port side 

 along an even and rather low edge of ice, and with an open 

 channel to starboard ; the channel soon closed up, but still left a 

 small opening, about 200 yards long and 120 yards wide. I only 

 wished that winter would soon come, so that we might freeze 

 securely into this favorable position. But it was too early in 

 the year, and there was too much disturbance in the ice to 

 allow of that. We had still many a tussle to get through before 

 the Fravi settled in her last winter haven. 



Our drift westward in the latter half of June and the greater 

 part of July was, on the whole, satisfactory. I give the following 

 observations : 



Date 



June 22d . 

 June 27th 

 June 29th . 

 July 5th . . 

 July 7th . . 

 July 1 2th . . 

 July 22d . . 

 July 27th . . 

 July 31st . . 

 August 8th . 

 August 22d . 

 August 25th . 

 September 2d 

 September 6th 



Latitude 



LONCnUDE 



80 58 



79 35 



79 50 



75 3 



74 

 76 



72 



73 

 76 



7 

 20 



56 

 49 

 10 



n 36 



78 47 



79 2 

 n 17 

 79 52 



Direction of 

 Wind 



N. 



N. by E. 



E.N.E. 



S.E. 



W.S.W. 



W.S.W. 



N.N.W. 



S.W. by S. 



S.W. 



N.W. 



S.W. 



E. by N. 



S.E. 



S.W. 



