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1861 Oct 21st Mon

drifting down Davis Strait, its extent without limit at the North & sea-ward.  We are also [[underlined]] without wind [[/underlined]] - the ice constantly increasing in thickness all over the Bay!
The 20th Oct., Instead of finding us on our way as purposed with bounding hearts - hearts swelling with joyous anticipations of a quick passage Home & of soon meeting our loved ones - [[underlined]] it finds us engaged in planning for subsistence during an imprisonment of 9 months in these frozen regions! [[/underlined]]  What a change!  What disappointments have been measured out to us!  And yet, Who shall say: It has not been Wisely ordered [[underlined]] so to be? [[/underlined]]  "Man proposes - [[underlined]] God disposes". [[/underlined]]  Cheerfully then we should submit to our lot.

Compare Chronometers Oct 21st/61
Resdue's  h3-m50-s00
G.H.'s  3-32-19 = (38(2)
R's fast on G.H.'s -17-41 [[checkmark]]

I went upon the ice at Meridian, or little before, for the purpose of taking Meridian Obn of the Sun.  I placed my Artificial Horizon down on the glossy surface & got everything in readiness, but to my surprise found the horizon constantly rocking from the dancing of the ice by the steps of the numerous Innuits, men, women & children, engaged in dragging "Muk-tuk" (Black skin) & Whale beef wh. they had obtained - the former from the vessel the latter from the whale's carcass along side.  I had to give it up.  At each step the ice bends surprisingly.  Salt-water-ice certainly must possess great elasticity from what I saw of it to-day.
I must have a talk with Ebierbing & Tuk-oo-li-too to-day about spending another Winter with them, as this time will soon come when we will have to take up our quarters with this people.  Probably six months out of the nine that we