THE START FOR HOME 
Slocum (Inighito) shot and secured a hood- 
seal, which weighed over six hundred pounds, 
and seal-steaks were added to the bill-of-fare. 
The snow storms of the two days ceased on 
the 28th, and when the weather cleared suffi- 
ciently for us to ascertain our whereabouts, we 
were much surprised to find that we had drifted 
back north, opposite Lincoln Bay. During 
the day the wind shifted to the north. Again 
we drifted southward, until, just off Cape 
Beechey, the narrowest part of Robeson Chan- 
nel, a lead stretching southward for a distance 
of five miles was sighted, and into this open 
water the ship steamed until the lead ter- 
minated in Kennedy Channel, opposite Lady 
Franklin Bay, where the Roosevelt was ice- 
bound until August 4, drifting with the pack 
until we were in a direct line with Cape Tyson 
and Bellot Isle. Three seals were captured, 
one a hood-seal weighing 624 pounds, being 
eight feet eleven inches in length; the other 
two were small ring-seals. 
By ten a. m. of the 4th, the ice had slack- 
ened so considerably that the Roosevelt, under 
full steam, set out and rapidly worked her 
way down Kennedy Channel. From Crozier 
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