l'ROGItESS OUT OF TilE ICE. 
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with greater safety, though we were not so fortu¬ 
nate as to avoid all the pieces of ice in our way. 
We struck a blow against a tongue of ice, that 
occasioned some alarm, being received upon the 
part of the ship that had sustained some injury in 
the gale of the 23d, from whence another piece of 
false-keel was now disengaged. In the evening, 
the weather becoming extremely thick and dark, 
and the wind blowing fresh at SSE., we made 
fast to a loose piece of ice. But we were not per¬ 
mitted to remain long, as several lumps of heavy 
ice setting towards us, forced us from our moor¬ 
ings before day-light. 
The fog was intensely thick the whole of the 
29th ; but the weather was fortunately calm. 
We now found that we were approaching the 
sea, both from a swell that penetrated and put 
the ice in motion, and from the loud roaring of 
the contiguous streams. We moored again in 
the night to several pieces of ice, no single piece 
about us being sufficiently large to make fast to. 
The night was so dark that the Fame, at the dis¬ 
tance of 150 or 200 yards, was not seen for some 
hours. The sea was highly luminous. 
August 30 th .—A considerable swell setting 
in, and the ice accumulating greatly around us, 
our situation, in the event of a gale of wind, 
threatened to be a very critical one. Fortunate- 
