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Sept 11 He had nothing whatever in his stomach so that hunger must have made him come out so dangerous a [neighbor] unclear during the afternoon the ice slacked a good deal round the ship. –
12 From 4 a.m. till 10 the ice slacked considerably but not so much as as to allow of the ships moving – after this it closed and remained in one compact body until 5 p.m. when it again opened so much as to enable us to warp about 2 miles in shore but 10 p.m. The ice closing prevented all further progress
13 At daylight the wind freshened from the NW with a heavy fall of snow & the ice closed round the ship. At sunset the unclear cleared a little & a glimpse of the