Towards the end of the month I had our store of seal meat and blubber brought aboard.

The depth as recorded by a sounding on the last day of March was 256 fathoms.

The continuous shoaling from 606 fathoms in a drift of 39 miles N.26ｰ W.in thirty days was interesting.

The sea shoaled as we went north, either to east or to west, and the fact suggested that the contour-lines ran east and west, roughly.

Our total drift between January 19, when the ship was frozen in, and March 31, a period of seventy-one days, had been 95 miles in a N.80ｰ W.direction.