continue our journey - at 160 though the breeze that sprang up during the night was from the north and was light, the Schooner was under way by gasoline power about 6 o'clock in the morning of 12 August, and, as soon as we were clear of the small islands of Upernavik, stood off N.N.W. toward the ice pack. This we sighted early in the afternoon, only twenty-eight miles from land, raising an impenetrable white barrier before us extending in each direction as far as the eye could see. The pack is composed of countless large and small bergs jammed more or less closely together, with intervening sheets of floe and pan ice - a cruel mass to be avoided with the greatest care. The wind coming off from it was piercingly,