Arctic regions voyage to Davis' Strait Author:David Duncan Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It appears to me unnecessary, and that it would perhaps perplex and tire the generality of my readers, the giving a daily statement of the courses or winds ; I s... more »hall therefore merely state the latitude and longitude on particular days, when we had opportunities of taking an observation and such occurrences as appear to be useful or interesting. From the 18th April, until the 18th May, we were employed in the usual manner on board ship, and preparing our lines and other matters requisite to commence fishing for whales ; on the 18th May we were in latitude 60 51' N., longitude 59 T W. variation per azimuth five points W., and for the first time in the voyage saw a stream of ice, and passed two large icebergs. May 19th. Latitude 60 8' N. saw two whales, called all hands and lowered away six boats after them. chapter{Section 420th, Latitude 60 16'N. Boats returned; hoisted them up and set the watch ; plying to N.E. among streams of ice. Saw a whale, called all hands, lowered away six boats after her, but they were obliged to return, not being able to come up with her ; hoisted them up and set the watch. 21st. Latitude 60 30' N. Reaching to the N. E. among straggling ice. 22nd. Latitude 60 69'. Reaching to the Northward among straggling ice, plying to the E N.E. along the pack edge. 23rd. Plying to the Eastward along the pack edge saw one whale ; called all hands and lowered away six boats after her; shortly afterwards Michael Lee struck the fish ; she ran nine lines out. She took the chapter{Section 5pack or large body of broken ice, and about 10 A. M., the harpoons drew, and to our great disappointment we lost the whale: employed afterwards hawling in the lines upon the ice. 24th. Plying to Eastward along the ice, saw two or three whales; lowered the boats dow...« less