Place looks desolate enough now and 146 one could hardly think that it had ever been or could be made a comfortable habitation for human beings. Much snow, ice and debris in there and seal-skin lining hangs in torn folds. Undescribable filth pollutes ground for ten yards around the igloo. Wrecked harmonium on bed platform. The welcome black zone of open water outside the bay seems to be working its way gradually inwards. Would do much execution to the bay ice, if they could only have a strong westerly gale of wind. Rft. - Curry of beef and rice. Dinner-baked oysters. After dinner the Captain and Taylor were out as far as they considered safe toward the open water. They came back reporting that (H.C.P.) the April ice all gone out and the old ice breaking up into pans and cracking for a half-mile back from the edge - they could feel the ice moving under them with the swell and could see the outer cakes grinding together under the influence of the moderate to strong northwest breeze - Prospect good for nutch-ice going out with next week's high tides. They saw a good many eider ducks and some seapigeons Taylor got one of the latter with a lucky rifle shot, decapitating it. Used last of biscuits (hard bread) for dinner in evening. 21 May. Sunday. Overcast. Westerly (N.W.?) wind 2. Temp.niin 23°; 9a.33°; 12m.31°; 4p.32°; 7:15f. 31° Little alkks absent this morning. The last fragments of biscuit (hard bread) disappeared to-day. Tarangi Clear shore again last night. Mous- tacho was altogether too white! Out for a short walk before dinner - Cleared off after dinner and nights was magnific from 6 p.m. Sun disappeared behind high cliffs at 7:10 p., mean time. Nonnan and some of the crew went out to top of the Big Bird Cliff behind The grotch. Reported open water and feet fars as far as the eye could see. Rft. Curry,