ENTEEING MELVILLE BAT. 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Our position, on entering this pack twenty-one day 
ago, was latitude 74° 08', longitude 59° 04'. Our oh 
servations now gave us a latitude of 73° 54', longitude 
60° 06' — an average progress of about a mile a day 
We had therefore been three weeks completely im 
prisoned, and the season for useful search was rapidly 
flitting by, when, on the 27th of July, came the dawn 
ing promise of escape. 
A steady breeze had been blowing for several days 
from the northward and westward, and under its in 
fluence the ice had so relaxed, that, had not the wind 
been dead ahead, we should have attempted sails 
Our floe surface, disturbed by these new influences 
gave us a constantly-shifting topography. It was cu 
rious to see the rapidity of the transformations. A 
