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have left their bones here early in the AM - we passed the Sea Horse Island and just before noon a dense fog shut down upon us when only two or three hours run separated us from Pt. Barrow. We had to lay too and anchor for the numerous fragments of ground ice made it dangerous to proceed - snowing the next 3 hours the fog raised & settled several times and kept us in a tantalized condition and at last after we had a glimpse of the settlement at Cape Smyth a party of natives came off & we learned that the last of the wrecked party was taken on board the Whalers yesterday - We got on a little farther and the fog shut down again so thick that after running about 4 miles we laid too blew the whistle &c without attracting attention from the 4 or 5 whalers which the natives told us were at anchor just off the spit at Pt. Barrow - After we had given up all hope of seeing the Point and the Capt. had almost made up his mind to turn back and find his way along the coast the fog partly lifted, and some natives came off & told us the Point lay just ahead and directly the air cleared so that we saw the whalers at anchor close to the village on the end of the Point We were much pleased & steamed away at once and in an hour were at anchor off the Point close beside the Steam Whaler Belvedere Capt. Owens.