4 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
over the barnacled rocks, and the silver sea-trout leaping 
in the tide. 
Also the stupendous steam crane of the new break- 
water is wonderful to watch, playing with cubes of tens 
of tons as though with pebbles; and that other machine 
—tragically exact—formed of human thews and sinews, 
and working to the utmost stretch of human capability, 
as perhaps only convict labour can. 
We had time enough for some of this in the intervals 
of getting the Saxonx ready for her cruise, though there 
was necessarily a good deal to be done. But by ten in 
the morning of this Saturday, June 2nd, all was ready 
and stowed. With that we weighed anchor and stood 
out of the harbour, dropping our pilot off the Head. 
The wind was light, and this was well; for it was all 
against us, blowing from the east. None the less the 
log at sunset showed nearly an average of nine knots 
and ahalf. At midnight the wind freshened and went 
a point or so more northerly, so that we set the sails and 
made good way. 
We found the Savozx a remarkably handy little boat 
which rode the waters like a cork. She was not a 
comfortable craft just by reason of her very quickness, 
but this we could forgive. 
I had had out the tow-net during the day, but, as it took 
nothing, I hauled it in again when the water grew rough. 
June 3rd.—At ten o'clock on this morning a pair of 
