went eastward and circled the head of the bay in land returning across bay ice - a hard 5-6 mile walk on account of the rocks. Saw first flowers of the season - white scurvy grass and humble heather. Little water running from Cluet Glacier. None seems to have come yet from the divided glacier. Crew brought lifeboat from beach and left it on ice alongside the vessel. Murre (Albat) stew for dinner. Very good. Taste somewhat like that of duck. Rest of menu - bread, tea with molasses and milk, dried peaches. Crew got 16 auklets today, of wh. Ben netted 10 5, Charley got 5 with a club + H.C.P. 3. Ben and Taylor got 12 murres at the big cliff in the evening. The boys report many cracks in bay ice from about 1/2 miles beyond vessel outward. 25 May Thursday. Cloudless before 9 a.m. but low fog was coming in and by 10 o'clock we were covered with the cloud about 600 feet above us. Light westerly air and variable. Fog lifted considerably about mid afternoon. Temp. min. 22°; 9a.31°; 12m.32°; 4p.35°.F.27° Chief took photos of me in very furs. St. Vincent work. Crew used gasoline blow-torch for singeing their birds. Great improvement over Charley's red hot poker, doing 170, including murres, in about a half hour. After dinner H.C.P. and Charley went out ready to the edge of the ice and returned confirming report that the ice beyond the large berg 1 1/2 mi. out is cracked in every direction ready to form floes and pans. Auklets are apparently getting ready to nest for they do not fly about so much. Out for about a half-hours walk just before dinner.