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A VOYAGE TO 
1779. perfect fafety, over the ice, which it would have been 
^ ApnL. ^ impoffible for us, with all our caution, to have palled on 
foot. 
On our return, we found the boats towing the fhip to¬ 
ward the village; and at feven we got clofe to the ice, and 
moored with the fmall bower to the North Eaft, and belt 
bower to the South Weft; the entrance of the bay bearing 
South by Eaft, and South three quarters Eaft; and the ojirog 
North, one quarter Eaft, diftant one mile and a half. The 
Friday 30. next morning, the calks and cables were got upon the 
quarter-deck, in order to lighten the fhip forward; and the 
carpenters were fet to work to ftop the leak, which had 
given us fo much trouble during our laft run. It was 
found to have been occaftoned by the falling of fome 
fheathing from the larboard-bow, and the oakum between 
the planks having been wafhed out. The warm weather 
we had in the middle of the day, began to make the ice 
break away very faft, which, drifting with the tide, had al- 
moft filled up the entrance of the bay. Several of our gen¬ 
tlemen paid their vifits to the Serjeant, by whom they were 
received with great civility; and Captain Clerke fent him 
two bottles of rum, which he underftood would be the moft 
acceptable prefent he could make him, and received in re¬ 
turn fome fine fowls of the groufe kind, and twenty trouts. 
Our fportfmen met with but bad fuccefs; for though the 
bay fwarmed with flocks of ducks of various kinds, and 
Greenland pigeons, yet they were fo fliy, that they could 
not come within flrot of them. 
Saturday 1 I 11 t ^ ie mom i n g °f t ^ ie I; ft °f May, feeing the Difcovery 
Handing into the bay, a boat was immediately fent to her 
afliftance; and in the afternoon, ihe moored clofe by us. 
They told us, that after the weather cleared up on the 28th, 
10 they 
