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GREENLAND VOYAGE. 
next, without the use of a watch. Added to the 
gloom common to the night, in the absence of 
the moon, we experienced the inconvenience of 
extraordinary darkness, amounting almost to a 
total want of light, produced by the general pre¬ 
valence of hazy or foggy weather. This circum¬ 
stance greatly augmenting the danger of our pre¬ 
sent situation, with little prospect of farther suc¬ 
cess in the fishery to counterbalance it, induced 
us to decide upon leaving the coast of Greenland 
with the first opportunity. According to this 
determination, we made sail in the evening, a 
breeze having then sprung up from the north¬ 
east, and proceeded to the eastward, in company 
with the Fame and Dundee,—the latter ship be¬ 
ing, by this time, tolerably well refitted with jury- 
masts, and furnished with every required material 
and assistance that the Fame, which principally 
attended her, could supply. 
