66 GUY FAWKES' DAY. Chap. IV. 



Franklin most tlaonglitfully and kindly sent it 

 on board for occasional use. It is excellent. 



This evening a well-got-up procession sallied 

 forth, marched round the ship with drum, gong, 

 and discord, and then proceeded to burn the 

 effigy of Gruy Fawkes. Their blackened faces, 

 extravagant costumes, flaring torches, and 

 savage yells, frightened away all the dogs ; nor 

 was it until after the fireworks were set off and 

 the traitor consumed that they crept back again. 

 It was school-night, but the men were up for 

 fun, so gave the Doctor a holiday. 



\2th. — Yesterday I had the good fortune to 

 shoot two seals ; they were very fat, and their 

 stomachs were filled with shrimps. To-day 

 Young and Petersen shot three more, and many 

 others have been seen. This is cheering, and 

 entices peoj^le out for hours daily. There is just 

 enough movement in the ice to keep a few nar- 

 row lanes and small pools of water open ; the 

 floes or fields of ice are more inclined to spread 

 out from each other than to close. We have 

 latterly been drifting before northerly winds. 



16^^. — A renewal of ice-crushing within a few 

 hundred yards of us. I can hear it in my bed. 

 The ordinary sound resembles the roar of distant 

 surf breaking heavily and continuously; but 

 when heavy masses come in collision with much 



