hour the ice block slipped (100 from its perch on the berg and rushed into the sea with a crash. It did not strike the place where we had been lying against the ice mass; but we were glad, just the same, that we were fifty or more yards distant, when it came down. When the Eskimos had gone ashore they had neglected to remove to the "Ingerhis" three boxes which we had been towing in the tender, and now when they tried to come off to us again they found their little boat too heavy to push through the surf and they were obliged to leave their cargo on the rocks. The wind seeming a bit less heavy, Hence about 10 o'clock Peter took Sigdie and rowed in to get the boxes, which contained some supplies.