walk, partly on the bay and [21] partly on shore. Wind was too high to render it advisable to take the long walk which we desired to take. I staid out an hour after he came aboard and I walked half way across the head of the bay. Increasing wind caused my re- turn early. Heavy black water fog is in evidence close in, crossing from Parker Snow Point to Cape Dudley Digges. Mate Davis went out a mile and climbed up the cliff to where he could see open water stretching across the bay from the little cove inside of where the "Cluett" moored, but he could not tell where is struck this shore. We fear that our three boxes on the ice (clam chow- der, pears and apples) have been carried out. Snow surface fins