sun was as far below the horizon [68] as the ascending sun now is, and too the disc is barely out of sight- 1 a.m. The sun is above the horizon line and another "day" has begun. The first two days beyond Devil's Thumb, which is an island present- ing the appearance of a tower or pillar more than a half-mile high and less than one-third as wide, we sailed seventy miles. This was encouraging enough, considering the reputation borne by Melville Bay, and I had dreams of getting through the dread body of ice in a week's time, but matters changed the next day and six o'clock of that morning found us moor- ed to a cake in the edge of a vast field of ice that stretched away to the east, the north and the west as Photo