332 ■ CRESSWELL BAY. Chap. XVII. 



Wednesday, Idth. — The S.W. wind proved 

 a good friend to us ; by the morning of the 

 9 th it had moved the ice off shore, and cleared 

 away a passage for us out of Brentford Bay. 

 We started under steam at eleven o'clock yester- 

 day morning, and, passing round Long Island, 

 made sail along the land towards Cape Garry, 

 there being a channel about 2 or 3 miles wide 

 between the pack and the shore. 



The wind now failed us, and I experienced 

 some little difificulty in the management of the 

 engines and boiler; the latter primed so vio- 

 lently as to send the water over our top gallant 

 yard, and the tail valve of the condenser by some 

 means had got out of its seat, and admitted air 

 to the condenser; but eventually we got the 

 engines to work well, and steamed across Cress- 

 well Bay during the night. The pack rested 

 against Fury Point, and an east wind springing 

 up, we made fast to a large grounded mass of 

 ice in Adelaide Bay, about | mile off shore, and 

 in 3 fathoms' water, at eleven o'clock this morn- 

 ing. Having managed the engines for twenty- 

 four consecutive hours, I was not sorry to get 

 into bed. We were hardly out of Brentford 

 Bay when fulmar petrels and white whales were 

 seen ; the first we have noticed for eleven and a 



