iting under power. The day was (41) clear, bright and beautiful, but we made little progress. Sunday was the same, and the captain's observations showed an advance of only 35 miles for the two days. I began to get anxious about our jour- ney on account of the long continued calm. From Battle Harbor to Godhavn our daily runs averaged 1/4 mile, a rate that made me think that per- haps, after all, we had not made a bad mistake in chartering a sail- ing vessel for the trip to Etah. But with the engine in poor shape, four days of flat calm was another and very different story and made me at any rate begin to feel very anxious regarding the ultimate success of our voyage. Sunday afternoon we took the