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us. We killed ten of them, which were as many as'we 
could make nfe of for eating, or for converting into lamp 
oil. We kept on with the wind, from the South Weft, 
along the edge of the ice, which extended in a direction 
almoft due Eaft and Weft, till four in the morning of the 
25th, when obferving a clear fea beyond it, to the South Eaft, 
we made fail that way, with a view of forcing through it. 
By fix, we had cleared it, and continued the remainder of 
the day running to the South Eaft, without any ice in fight. 
At noon, our latitude, by obfervation, was 68° 38', longitude 
189° g\ and the depth of water thirty fathoms. At mid¬ 
night, we tacked, and ftood to the Weft ward, with a frefh 
gale from the South; and at ten in the forenoon of the 26th, 
the ice again fhewed itfelf, extending from North Weft to 
South. It appeared loofe, and drifting, by the force of the 
wind, to the Northward. At noon, our latitude, by obfer¬ 
vation, was 68° North, longitude 188° io" Eaft; and we had 
foundings with twenty-eight fathoms. For the remaining 
part of the day, and till noon of the 27th, we kept ftanding 
backward and forward, in order to clear ourfelves of differ¬ 
ent bodies of ice. At noon, we were in latitude, by obfer¬ 
vation, 67° 47', longitude 188 0 . At two in the afternoon, we 
faw the continent to the South by Eaft; and at four, having 
run, fince noon, with a South South Eaft wind to the South 
Weft, we were furrounded by loofe maffes of ice, with the 
firm body of it in fight, ftretching in a North by Weft, and 
a South by Eaft direction, as far as the eye could reach ; be¬ 
yond which we faw the coaft of Alia, bearing South, and 
South by E»ft. 
As it was now neceffary to come to fome determination 
with refpeff to the courfe we were next to fteer, Captain 
Clerke fent a boat, with the carpenters, on board the Difco- 
L 1 2 very, 
Sunday 25,- 
Monday 26. 
Tuefday 27. 
