Crew washed down deck this morning. Finished St. Vincent work for the 17th present and began the preparation of an account of the Arctic Voyage of the George III. Cluett"" for publication. Out for 3 1/2 hrs. on ice and shore before dinner. Walking on the bay is tedious work now, the bare ice being too smooth and slippery for easy progress in tamaris, then being comparatively little hard snow and the soft snow being slushy and disagreeable. The little auks allow one to come very close - within 5 yds or less, sometimes - before they rise in great whirling clouds which almost darken the air as they pass close to his head on their way out circling around the head of the bay. The burgomaster gulls cause great commotion among the little auks, when they come near because they feed upon the little birds. The little auks have several active enemies: the gulls; the foxes, which eat birds and young and eat their eggs, besides caching eggs for the winter; and mankind both eskimos and white, who get both birds and eggs. But there still are millions of the auks, though but one egg is laid to a clutch. The crew, two of them, kicked and Charley singled 178 little auks to-day for our mess. It takes 3 apiece to go around (56 birds) and some of us would eat more if we got them. The captain had eaten more than one. Mrake & Norman got the extra ones left by him this afternoon - Salt horse and sweet pork for dinner. 3 June. Saturday. Overcast (C 4) Wind S.W. 1-2. Temp. min. 26°; 9a. 34°; 12m. 35½°; 4h. 34°; 8h. 31°. H.E.P. took observation at noon using artificial horizon. Out for 1 1/2 hrs. before dinner on cliffs, climbing up from new coal cache and coming down through big greech east of the isloo. Edge of bay ice seems to have come in somewhat since my last ascent and now is about 1/4 mi. outside large berg, extending from point midway of mid cliff across bay to core inside of islet. Collected willow tree about four feet long to take home to Britton. auklets for offr. & auklebaw & furrines for dinner.