o'clock Mr. Porsild, having returned 40 earlier in the evening from an east- came on board ward cruise in his power boat, He told no much about Greenland and said that we were quite early enough for the attempt on Milvito Bay, be- cause the preceding winter had been exceptionally severe, and the bay would be choked with ice till late in the summer. Our guests all left us by mid- night and at 4:30 the next morn-ing, the seventh, Captain Pickels began heaving the anchor, since it seemed best to all of us to put out to sea in spite of the continuing calm. The engine propelled us out clear of the coast and then was stopped, the broken fly wheel mak- ing the captain already change run-