PARRY'S JOURNAL. 
309 
Once fairly started, the intrepid voyager states :— 
“ We set off on our first journey over the ice at 
ten p.m. on the 24th, Table Island bearing S.S.W., and 
a fresh breeze blowing from W.S.W., with a thick fog, 
which afterwards changed to rain. The bags of pem- 
mican were placed upon the sledges, and the bread in 
the boats, with the intention of securing the latter 
from wet; but this plan we were very soon obliged to 
relinquish. We now commenced upon very slow and 
laborious travelling, the pieces of ice being of small 
extent and very rugged, obliging us to make three 
journeys, and sometimes four, with the boats and 
baggage, and to launch several times across narrow 
pools of water. This, however, was nothing more 
than we had expected to encounter at the margin 
of the ice, and for some distance within it; and 
every individual exerted himself to the utmost, with 
the hope of the sooner reaching the main or field 
ice. 
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“We pursued our journey at half-past nine p.m., 
with the wind N.E., and thick weather, the ice being 
so much in motion as to make it very dangerous to 
cross with loaded boats, the masses being all very 
small. Indeed, when we came to the margin of the 
floe-piece on which v r e had slept, we saw no road 
