For a time we almost thought we had come to the end of our troubles, and there was much jubilation.

But, alas! at the end of the lead we have come again to heavy bay ice.

It is undoubtedly this mixture of bay ice which causes the open leads, and I cannot but think that this is the King Edward's Land pack.

We are making S.W.as best we can.
What an exasperating game this is!--one cannot tell what is going to happen in the next half or even quarter of an hour.

At one moment everything looks flourishing, the next one begins to doubt if it is possible to get through.
_New Fish_ .-- Just at the end of the open lead to-night we capsized a small floe and thereby jerked a fish out on top of another one.