. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. near enough to Nunavak Island to sight it. Therefore at 4 a. 12 the course was changed to go well to the westward of 8 p. m. December 12 considered we were to the northward of theisland and shaped course for the east end of St. Lawrence Island. p. m. December 13 saw thin scum of ice, and shortly afterwardscame across detached pieces. At p. m. made Paunk Islets offSoutheast Cape, St. Law
. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. near enough to Nunavak Island to sight it. Therefore at 4 a. 12 the course was changed to go well to the westward of 8 p. m. December 12 considered we were to the northward of theisland and shaped course for the east end of St. Lawrence Island. p. m. December 13 saw thin scum of ice, and shortly afterwardscame across detached pieces. At p. m. made Paunk Islets offSoutheast Cape, St. Lawrence Island, bearing NW. |W., distant 4miles. The outlines of Southeast Cape could be dimly seen throughthe snow squalls. At 2 p. m., on account of the decreasing tempera-ture of the water and increasing amount of drift ice, steered east insearch of open water. At 3 p. m., finding less ice, steered NNE. ran into fields of broken ice mixed with slush ice. At 4, findingthe ice getting too heavy to run through, turned and steered slowed down to half speed, and continued so with reefed main-sail, jib, and staysail, tacking to the eastward and southward every. ui UJ I £ 5 <UJCD UJ5 o CO CRUISE OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 13 four hours. It was my intention to keep near the outer edge of theice until daylight, in order to have a look at the ice to the northward,but the farther we worked south the thicker the mush ice that as soon as the wind died out the sea would go down andthe mush ice would form into a solid mass which it would be impossi-ble for us to get through, at a. m. on the 14th I went ahead fullspeed to SSW. At this time the mush ice was so dense that we madebut slow speed through it. At 8 a. m., being through the worst of it,hauled by the wind and commeuced beating to the southward. At thetime we turned back, in latitude 63° 13 north, longitude 167° 28west, Cape Nome bore N. by E. f E., magnetic, distant 85 miles, an
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