VOYAGE EESUMED. 
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IX.] 
On the 18th September^ the state of the ice was quite 
unchanged. If a wintering was to be avoided, it was, however, 
not advisable to remain longer here. It had besides appeared 
from the hill-top which I visited the day before that an open 
CORMORANT FROM IRKAIPIJ. 
Graculus Ucristatus (Pallas). 
water channel, only interrupted at two places by ice, was still to 
be found along the coast. The anchor accordingly was weighed, 
1 Irkaipij lies in 180° long, from Greenwich. To bring our day-reckoning 
into agreement with that of the New World, we ought thus to have here 
lessened our date by one day, and have written the 17th for the 18th 
September. But as, with the exception of the short excursion to Port 
Clarence and St. Edward Island, we always followed the coasts of the Old 
World, and during our stay in the new hemisphere did not visit any place 
inhabited by Europeans, we retained during the whole of our voyage our 
European day-reckoning unaltered. If we had met with an American 
whaler, we would have been before him one day, our 27th September would 
thus have corresponded to his 26th. The same would have been the case 
on our coming to an American port. 
