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off the entrance. We got under way and ran offshore, following the 

 channel leading between the breakers on Passage Rock and the 

 cliffs westward of Gulch Cape. 



The short night of July 22 was spent running slowly northward 

 parallel to the coast. July 23 proved to be much hke the preceding 

 days, gentle easterly breezes with fog along the shore line. Offshore 

 high fog prevailed, and we were able to fix our position with many 

 siglits taken through thin spots in the stratus clouds. Three stations 

 were taken in the morning to correspond with the three obtained by 

 the Marion off Aulalsivik Island, then Gray Strait was approached 

 and entered. No pictures of the eastern or western approaches were 

 taken, for only the lowest parts of Cape Chidley and the off-lying 

 islands were visible under the blanket of fog. There was evidence 

 of considerable tidal current in the choppiness of the water in Gray 

 Strait, but we took frequent bearings of recognized points and 

 islands and had no trouble in getting through into the open and sunlit 

 waters of Ungava Bay. 



Seventeen sights of the sun taken between 0852 and 1437 on July 23, 

 while approaching Cape Chidley, made it certain that its position as 

 given in the Newfoundland and Labrador Pilot and in the Arctic 

 Pilot is wrong. We found it to be where charted on Canadian chart 

 405 and B. A. chart 1422. We were unable to verify the position 

 of the north point of the Button Islands, or Hatton Headland, Resolu- 

 tion Island, because of fog. The positions of these last two points 

 differ as given in the Arctic Pilot and on the charts. In view of the 

 age of the pilot book and of our experience with Cape Chidley, it is 

 believed that more trust should be placed in the charts than in the 

 pilot book. 



By 6 p. m. we had anchored in the harbor at Port Burwell, Canadian 

 Labrador. In contrast with conditions prevaihng along the coast, 

 the weather was perfectly clear at this place, as it continued to be 

 over Ungava Bay. We found the harbor wide open and easy of 

 access, though somewhat difficult for strangers to identify. The 

 beacons and ranges have for the most part fallen into disrepair and 

 the town is so small as to be hidden among the rocks. The Moravian 

 Mission building, which was abandoned about 10 years ago, still 

 stands and is available as a marker on some bearings while approach- 

 ing Port Burwell, as are the two steel towers of the abandoned radio 

 station. 



The evening of July 23 was spent with the Canadian Northwest 

 Mounted Police and with the people at the Hudson Bay Co. post. 

 At 9.20 a. m. on July 24, after topping off the tanks with good fresh 

 water from one of the small streams running into the harbor, we got 

 under way. Just off the harbor entrance a magnetic disturbance was 

 noted. While the ship was swinging left slowly, the compass swung 



