are smoky in color. We are passing many fishery schooners going northward. Captain Bartlett tells me that mirages are present after heat with easterly winds. This afternoon at 2 there is peculiar atmospheric heat ahead of the vessel. The sea passes into luminous mirage, due to reflection from floe ice, and this into a grey haze terminating gradually into thin fleecy cloak which are streaming out in a zigzag manner, capped by the blue of the sky. The mirage effect always lies in advance of the fleet. It elevates into the sky heavy forms to a shadow with small ice it gives one the impression of clouds. At 3:40 we pass Decker's Flat Island, a very small rock. At 2 P.M. we enter our first floe ice. The hummocks not abundant on thick, At 6 P.M. we are nearly opposite Cape Starison, Island from that Cape there is a range of high apparently serratus mountains. This range is higher than anything seen to the South. There does not appear to be a distinct range but rather a sea of mountains,