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(5 1861 July 28th + Brot. my Chro. aboard to-day from Whale Island & compared it with G.H. - | h m bt(2 R's | VI-53-01 G.H.'s | VI-38-00 Difference | 15-00.5 [[checkmark]] One fourth of an hour before IX P.M. "Spikes" crew out down the Companion Way Captain! Your men are coming up! [[note]] [[?]] moment counting in little Aft Cabin [[/note]] Capt B. having turned in, as well as all the men, I continued the word sent down by "Spikes" to the Capt. I then ran up on deck & asked "Spikes" where they were? He replied he didn't exactly know but thought they might be that way pointing to an island S.E. as he heard voices that way. I listened & then gave a shout! At 1st I thought "Spikes" mistaken as the echo of the voices of the Innuits on Whale Island was often heard. But a shout from White men answered to mine. Up came Smith then Capt. B. - then from fore-castle the few hands there. A Boat was soon manned by Smith, myself, Spikes, Bill & young Smith - away we went toward the Island where the voices of Kabloomers were heard. We made quick passage down the harbor as far as open water permitted - then we struck into broken ice - here our progress was slow but by the good steering of Smith, the elder, we still pushed on [[?oftener]] [[end page]] [[start page]] (6 1861 July 28 + using the ice for our oars to react against the water. We passed the "ghost" - the Rescue's wreck - which was floating in with the tide to greet as it were again & again the sight of Capt. B. Her bow - or so much of as was above water became a medium on wh. the starboard oars of our boat found a place to assist in several heavy pulls. Thus even the [[underlined]] 'abandoned' [[/underlined]] - a Ghost - lent its aid to our persevering efforts to gain a desolate Island to save Morgan, Bailey, Keeney & E-bier-bing who had made their way to it from a point some 3 miles below by trudging over ice - ferrying across water spaces on drifting ice - by wading &c. This party was but a portion of the one that left this morning Budingtonville for the vessel. The remainder had stopped for the night at the point where the boats were landed near the ice flow below. Rogers, Lamb, Gardiner & their crews are now camping out. Those named above (M., B., K. & E.) were the only ones who felt determined to reach the vessel to-night. They have
