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HAKLUYT ISLAND. 
our Aveary men turned in to sleep without hauling up 
the boats. 
When Petersen and myself returned from an unsuc¬ 
cessful hunt upon the ice, we found them still asleep, 
in spite of a cold and drizzling rain that might have 
stimulated wakefulness. I did not disturb them till 
eight o’clock. We then retreated from our breakwater 
of refuge, generally pulling along by the boat-hooks, 
but sometimes dragging our boats over the ice; and at 
last, bending to our oars as the water opened, reached 
the shore of Hakluyt Island. 
It was hardly less repulsive than the ice-cliffs of the 
day before; but a spit to the southward gave us the 
opportunity of hauling up as the tide rose, and we 
finally succeeded in transferring ourselves and all our 
fortunes to the land-ice, and thence to the rocks beyond. 
It snowed hard in the night, and the work of calking 
went on badly, though we expended on it a prodigal 
share of our remaining white-lead. We rigged up, 
however, a tent for the sick, and reinforced our bread- 
dust and tallow supper by a few birds. We had shot a 
seal in the course of the day, but we lost him by his 
sinking. 
In the morning of the 22d we pushed forward 
through the snow-storm for Northumberland Island, 
and succeeded in reaching it a little to the eastward of 
my former landing-place. Myriads of auks greeted us, 
and- we returned their greeting by the appropriate in¬ 
vitation to our table. A fox also saluted us with an 
admirable imitation of the “ Huk-huk-huk,” which 
