July 28 Wednesday Off Labrador Arose and were on deck at 7.15 when we were crossing Hamilton Inlet. The sun is obscured with the wind from the land. It is raw and cold. Lieut Peary thinks the coldness is due to the proximity of large masses of ice. At 10.30 A.M. we are opposite White Bear Island at the north end of Hamilton Inlet. These islands are probably less than 150 feet high, are very round hills and jagged. They don't appear to have been glaciated but look like land that had been eroded and broken up by marine action and frost. Almost the whole surface is brown and numerous persistent cliffs can be seen. Saw a fin whale traveling southward. There is a fire on the land further west and near White Bear Island. Capt Bartlett thinks it is a great bed of fire. Saw other fires during the day. At 1 P.M. we saw the first distinct mirage. To the right of the vessel there is a procession of large ice heaps and beyond these there is the mirage with a number of heaps involved with long reflections in the mirage towards the water. Some of the mirage heaps are also snow white but a number