continued calm and the sea glassy [96] and practically free from ice, but toward the latter part of the after- noon we encountered a swell in the ocean which was heavy for a boat no larger than the "Dager- lis". -About six o'clock, when we were still four or five hours' run from Etah, the engine suddenly stopped working and all Hendrik's inves- tigation and effort could not discover ^ the seat of the difficulty or start the motor. Peter, Hendrik and Sigd- lue got into the tender and began towing the "Dagerlis" to a place of safe- ty for the night, while I manned her tiller. It was slow, hard, heart- breaking work. The tide was with us and there was no wind, but the swell for the rowers