"The ice is getting thin, rotten (10 and separated in that part of the bay. Tuesday 18 July. Thinly overcast and calm, followed by light S.S.W. and variable winds. Foggy late afternoon & evening. Temp. Min. 29°; 8a. 38°; 12m. 36°; 4p. 35°; 8p. 34° Out in morning for an hour with Cap- tain Corner. Photo'd Astrup's mother. Dr. Hunt says that by questioning he learned that the white-coat which Captain Picard secured from Erik, and wh. I later got from Norman, was taken from the body of the mother and not from the stomach of a white whale. Erik & Dr. were out in canoe this aft- morning and early afternoon. Got a seal.