Temp. min .30°; 9a.40°; 11.36°; 8h.39° (1/64) Yesterday wind removed snow from ice where the cover was thin and made the walking good there. Elsewhere on bay the snow is thick and soft and footing very bad. Some more pans of ice seem to have gone from the edge of the ice, but the process is slow. Encouraging melting going on along line of water coming up through cracks along ice foot of northern shore, where melting is helped by brooks from the gletches. Was out for an hour along shore and on shoulder cliff above lumber point. Potash already getting abundant. Norman and Taylor went seal hunting along the south shore, but the animals were too quick for them though each ventured a shot. They went out to the edge of the ice and then along the dangerous ice foot to where the "Cruise Tidikssua" is cached. They report new cracks and encouraging looks of the ice. Abundance of birds on the water. Ben went out to Norman's quick and big bluff and got several sea pigeons but could not go to where the murres are. Put in four hours on "Cluett Voyage" 20 June. Tuesday. Overcast and foggy. Calm in morning but strong easterly wind sprang up in late afternoon. Looked bad on ice cap. Snow. Temp. min .31°; 9a.35°; 12 m.34°; 1h.34°; 8h.34° Mere, Egingual, Alriguodoblelo and Inuse's son Elingwa (?) came in about 10 a.m. from Umanak, Egingual bringing letters from Elk and Peter and from Rasmussen, who arrived at North Star Bay on the 17th, bringing mail from New York which he sent down to me. Most welcome - but the news that my be- loved mother passed away on 16 December daddens me. 35 letters + one telegram!