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ation, being almost ice-bound. Sent out 
the boats after a whale, which made its 
escape below the ice after being struck 5 
the lines of course were lost. The har¬ 
poons are marked with the names of the 
ship and captain, and if a whale that has 
been killed by one ship be found by ano¬ 
ther, she is obliged to deliver up a cer¬ 
tain portion of the blubber to the for¬ 
mer. 
From June 1 st to June 7 th, the wea¬ 
ther was, upon the whole, pretty good, 
though the squalls were very frequent, 
accompanied by dense showers of snow. 
The rigging, by this time, had assumed 
a very strange appearance, at least what 
would be deemed as such by a more 
southern sailor. The ropes were fre¬ 
quently increased to double their usual 
size by the incrustations of ice, which 
had to be beat off by handspikes to allow 
them to pass through the blocks. The 
decks were every now and then besprink- 
