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altered in structure as it is there is an inva=
sion of the complete solidity as far as
eye can [extend?] at an altitude of
60 feet. Mr Sonntag and Dr Hayes
from the Sylvia Head looked out upon
a radius 23 miles and saw there the
same expanse of ice. The noise
noise of a distant water stream is heard in
shore to the S.E. I sent Hayes and
Bonsall to find it. They are still out.

Mr Ohlsen completed a tinned box
for our skinned specimines as a
protection against the rats which infest
the brig. I had the boat put into
the land ice water as a preparatory to
complete overhauling.

Placed our [?] Barometer - on deck
a change of level of five feet and
circled a [?] on [?] Island
(Tern Rock?) for magnetic observations
Hourly of variables of declimations .
Placed Mr Wilson on a day watch
and filled up with Dr Hayes, Goodfellow
and Bonsall

June

June is one of the critical months of the
Arctic year - It heralds the true summer
and brings back to land and water the
migratory life which winter had driven
to the south.

This month has been singularly
chararicteristic in our present latitudes
Except the [?] gull and snowbird
which reached us in
not a bird of passage had reached us
The falcon and Ptarmigan represented on
shore the resident birds. The Raven [?]
over ambiguous haunts of sea ice and land-