30 THE NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. night to the south-eastward. Two Polar hears were seen on this day, one of which I shot. On the 14th we were in latitude 60° N., long. 40° 10' W., 60 miles east from the entrance to Prince Christian Sound, having been led off by the trend of the ice, which now gave us the first indications of an unusually great accumulation around Cape Farewell, and which drove rapidly back to north-east before the wind. We here obtained soundings in 1120 fathoms, gravel and sand; and again on 16th, Cape Farewell bearing N. 56° W. 75 miles, 1230 fathoms, muddy sand. From this date commenced a series of most violent gales, which blew without intermission until the evening of the 19th, and during which time I had on several occasions approached the coast, in order to ascertain if it was sufficiently free of ice to admit of our carrying on surveying operations in the southern fiords; and on the evening of the 21st September we moored to an iceberg for the night, we then being 36 miles S. 29° W. from Cape Thorvaldsen or Desolation Island, having worked through some streams of ice, and we took this opportunity of sounding. We got an unexpected depth of 1550 fathoms, but unfortunately lost the bottom specimen from the line fouling the ship’s heel, and breaking at 300 fathoms in heaving in. From the absence of ice in-shore we had intended with daylight entering the Torsukatok Channel, and proceeding within the islands to Julianshaab and southern fiords, but after midnight a furious hurricane from S.S.E. suddenly burst upon us, tearing us from the berg, and compelling us to scud before the wind, and through the openings in the ice, which now fast accumulated again from the southward. A detailed account of this hurricane will be given hereafter; suffice it to say, that after having frequently struck the ice, got the water over our machinery, and engines consequently stopped, storm-sail split, and upper works damaged, we were by the mercy of God’s providence saved from destruction. The northerly currents and continuance of stormy weather

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