444 and heavily overcast. Air filled with icy snow particles from the ice cap & driven out through the fjord by a south- easterly gale which began to rage at about 11 o'clock last night. Temp. min +11°; 9a, +11°; noon+9° Just a year at 12:55p.m. that E.L.H. passed away Breakfast, same as yesterday. Dinner, pea soup, corned beef, no veal, other things same as yesterday. Captain Pickels said to me to-day, that he intended to put all my coal a- shore here together with what kerosene Peter wished to buy next spring while the ice was still good, then, when con- ditions became favorable, shift his bal- last, beach the vessel as well as he could at high tide, take off her propeller, board up the opening where the pro- peller works and sail straight for home without going to North Star Bay at all. Nothing about Etah was mentioned