HARTSTENE BAY-LEAVING CAPE ALEXANDER. 
to the south; and Littleton Island is before us, hiding 
Cape Ilatherton, the latest of Captain Inglefield’s posi¬ 
tively-determined headlands. We are lairly inside ol 
Smith’s Sound. 
“ On our left is a capacious bay; and deep in its north¬ 
eastern recesses we can see aglacier issuing from a fiord. 
of the officers said to our look-out, that the gulls and 
eider that dot the water about us were as enlivening as 
the white sails of the Mediterranean. ‘Yes, sir,’ lie re¬ 
joined, with sincere gravity; ‘yes, sir, in proportion to 
their size.’” 
“August 7, Sunday.—We have left Cape Alexander 
