166 50: -- Monday, October 5 - 19'4 And still it blows! (Intermitently) The high-tide have come and as a result the ice commenced to go today - We said if we were by the next island about 2 o'clock but he could not come all the way to us as The ice commenced to truck up. We however working to feed our guppies and try them on any to get back. One of them he already eaten the green branches in the willow branch I made last month. We rowed on the kite nearly all day, lazy and finished both of them & from then commenced my the first one and I stood by at the oar. The first move by the kite was a healthy dive into the water. The wreckage was discouraging, at least four or six sticks being smashed & we believe that the kite frame was crooked and this caused the gailure to fly straight. The bracing wires were pretty taut and may have pulled it frame out of shape - It will be a cold job getting another one ready. I walked for two hours and a half tonight. The comet is growing terribly larger, apparently approaching the earth & there was a quiet answer for a while but it did not compare with the beautiful meteors which seemed unusually numerous. It's peculiar that the days seem so much longer since we set our clock back three hours to agree with that of Esk. I am keeping very regular hours, sleeping eight hours, walking at least two and sitting at regular times.