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following history of the loss of his vessel.

On the 3d of July at 11am they were closed in by the pack after spending the preceding day trying to beat S.ward against a SW. wind. Their bow was headed in toward Point Barrow to the E. where the native village was in plain view. The natives came onboard the evening before from this place.

At 12.45 PM. the ice pack closed in against he immovable shore ice or "flaw" & the whalers & her sides so crushed in below the waterline that in 20 minutes the water was up within two ft. of the deck & everyone was put to throwing provisions, clothing & other necessaries upon the ice while as fast as this was done the Eskimo on the ice who had been on board & who came off with sleds began carrying everything away canned meats, pilot bread, salt meat and even the chronometers charts & sextants were carried off The boats were placed on the ice and with a few things they had saved from the natives the crew started ashore for the vessel soon after she filled was heeled over on her beam ends & thus held by the ice was carried slowly off to the North by the drifting ice which had closed in to a solid [[strikethrough]] floe [[/strikethrough]] pack by this time as far as could be seen.
 
The moment the vessel became crushed the natives climbed aloft like monkeys and cut away all the sails which were dragged upon the ice they also stole the boat sails from the boats after the latter were 

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