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RETURNING LIGHT. 
“ 11. Can read ordinary over-sized print. Started 
on a walk, the first time for twenty-odd days. Saw 
the great lead, and traveled it for a couple of miles, 
expanding into a plain of recent ice. 
“ M. Passed noon on the ice. Can read diamond 
type. Stars of the first magnitude only visible. Sat- 
urn magnificent ! 
“1 P.M. With difficulty read large type. The 
clouds gathering in black stratus over the red light 
to the south. 
“ 2. The heavens studded with stars in their group- 
ings. Night is again over every thing, although the 
minor stars are not yet seen. 
“ Since the first of this month, we have drifted in 
solitude one hundred and seventy miles, skirting the 
northern shores of Lancaster Sound. Baffin’s Bay is 
ahead of us, its current setting strong toward the south. 
What will he the result when the mighty masses of 
these two Arctic seas come together !” 
