LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS 
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now put overboard and three hallibut weighing 97tbs, and one 
cod weighing 14^lbs were caught. 
On the 21st land was in sight, and the steam was got up, but 
the engine worked very badly, on account of the larboard boil¬ 
er leaking so much that it put the fire out; the crew however 
laboured hard, working the bellows to keep the steam up, and 
this severe labour in addition to that of navigating the vessel, 
created no little dissatisfaction amongst the crew, wbo in their 
hearts wished the engine at the top of an iceberg, or like Jonas 
in the belly of a whale; for so far from diminishing their labour, 
or expediting their progress, the utmost speed which they 
reached was two knots in an hour, during which time they were 
obliged to be incessantly working at the bellows, or exposed to 
the danger attendant upon the gathering of the ice for the purpose 
of feeding the boilers: soundings were again taken in 80 fathoms, 
but no bottom. Commander James caught another fine cod. 
The fires were now drawn, all the clinkers cleared out, and 
light set to the furnace, but all to no purpose, as the larboard 
boiler continued to leak so much that the fire was put out as fast as 
it w r as lighted ; the steam however from the starboard boiler, work¬ 
ed the larboard wheel with the starboard wheel up. At 8 p.m. the 
watch -was set, every man in the ship, sixteen in number, taking 
it by turns during the night to blow the bellows, to keep the 
steam up. The progress during the time the steam was up, was 
1 mile 2 furlongs per hour. The officers caught several very fine 
cod, and two hallibut. At 11 p.m. the engine was still at work, 
but the crew were much fatigued, and almost choaked with the 
sulphurous exhalations arising from the furnace. 
On the 22nd, a light and fair breeze springing up, all sail was 
set; the steam was let off and the paddle hove up; at 1 p.m. tacked 
and stood in with the land, A number of fish were caught, which 
being weighed amounted to 453fbs. At midnight of the 23rd, 
they were close in with the land about South Bayor Wylie Ford, 
and s ent a boat on shore to look for a harbour; at three the 
boat returned, and commander James took the ship into a very 
fine harbour, but it was amongst a parcel of islands. The ship 
was however got safely in, and made fast to the rocks in three 
fathoms water. 
