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328 STILL WORKING ON. 
this, with the rain which fell heavily, forced us to bale 
her out every other hour. Of course, we could not 
sleep, and one of our little party fell sick with the 
unmitigated fatigue. 
On the twenty-ninth, it came on to blow, the wind 
SOUTH POINT OF NORTHUMBERLAND ISLAND. 
still keeping from the southwest, but cold and almost 
rising to a gale. We had had another wet and sleep¬ 
less night, for the floes still baffled us by their capricious 
movements. But at three in the afternoon we had 
the sun again, and the ice opened just enough to tempt 
