If the floes continue to loosen, we may break out within the next few weeks and resume the fight.

In the meantime the pressure continues, and it is hard to foresee the outcome.

Just before noon to-day (July 26) the top of the sun appeared by refraction for one minute, seventy-nine days after our last sunset.

A few minutes earlier a small patch of the sun had been thrown up on one of the black streaks above the horizon.

All hands are cheered by the indication that the end of the winter darkness is near....