The horizontal refraction varied so much this morning that the upper limb of the sun twice appeared at the horizon before it finally rose.
For the last two days the water rose and fell about nine inches.

The tides however seemed to be very irregular and we could not determine the direction of the ebb or flood.

A current setting to the eastward was running about two miles an hour during our stay.

The ice having removed a short distance from the shore by eleven A.M.we embarked, and with some difficulty effected a passage, then, making a traverse across Gray's Bay,* we paddled up under the eastern shore against a strong wind.

The interpreters landed here and went in pursuit of a deer but had no success.