Tome object certainly looked this morning to be an isolated pillar of rock - the mate, studying it from the mast head with glasses, made it out to be a lone pillar of rock. Capt Cover and Pickels considered it the same - It is a remarkable object if it is a lone pillar so high and narrow, and a remarkable exposure if Leir Ryder is correctly quoted (Meddel- elses om Grønland VIII, 253, is the ref. given in the Arctic Pilot) 5/10d 1, mo 25 - 9:15 p.m. Near view of large berg of old Ice (paleoartic?) 5- 17 Aug. Ship stopped by ice floe about 5 a.m. and made fast to edge. Flat calm. 5/10d 2 - mo 4/25 Overcast, making fast the ship (change from 5/6 first "moorage") 5/1/E 1 - do. 5/9