AfP. N° VI.] EXTRACT OF A JOURNAL. 
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No. VI. 
JOURNAL of PROCEEDINGS on Board of 
the Trafalgar of Hull, Captain Lloyd, on the 
East Coast of West Greenland, from the 12th 
to the 31st of August 1822. 
The Trafalgar of Hull was long in company with the 
Baffin, on the voyage narrated in this volume, and was at 
last separated from us by getting beset on the 12th of Au¬ 
gust. Her situation at the time was supposed to be one 
of great danger; but it proved to have been still more ex¬ 
treme than we expected. Having, as this Appendix was 
printing, unexpectedly met with a journal kept by Mr 
John Erskine Gibson, who was surgeon of the Trafalgar, 
I considered a part of it so interesting, as to form a de- 
sirable article for my Appendix. The following particu¬ 
lars, relating, Is#, to the dangerous state of the Trafalgar 
while beset; 2 d, to her equally dangerous situation in the 
gale of the 23d of August; and, 3d, to the adventures of 
five of her men, who were left all night in the midst of this 
storm upon a piece of ice,—are extracted in substance, and 
in some places verbatim, from Mr Gibson’s journal. The 
first section shews, that the narrow escape we made from 
an entanglement similar to that of the Trafalgar’s, was 
fully as remarkable and important as I then considered it 
to be* ; the second shews the great danger of the storms 
which occur, at the close of the fishing season, on the east 
coast of Greenland, particularly to ships about leaving the 
* Soc pages 2G1. and 2G8. of this volume. 
