70 GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
A calm succeeded tbeigale, on the morning of 
Sunday the 2(ith of May. The ship being then in 
the middle of a heavy patch of ice, we warped into 
a more commodious situation, and again moored to 
a small sheet of ice, and had our usual devotional 
exercises. A large whale came up near us, and 
appeared three times in the same spot; but, being 
the Sabbath day, we did not pursue it. 
During the three succeeding days the weather 
was generally foggy, with southerly or easterly 
winds, that brought the ice so much about us, 
that we could not keep the ship under-way. 
Several whales were seen, or heard blowing; all 
our exertions, however, in pursuing them, amid 
crowded ice and bewildering fog, were fruitless. 
The temperature of the air being near the freez¬ 
ing point, the fog was deposited on the rigging in 
a thick coating of transparent ice. At every 
movement in the rigging, this was dislodged in 
hard sharp masses of several pounds weight, which 
came down in such showers as to render it dan¬ 
gerous to look upward. 
On the 30th we had a fresh gale at south-west, 
and a considerable fall of snow. At 4 a. m. it 
was announced to me that the ship was nearly be¬ 
set. Personally suffering at the time under a 
severe cold and sore throat, with tormenting tooth¬ 
ache, I was unable to “ turn out.” When I 
