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4 After going back about ten miles we discovered a good anchorage in 15 fathom water in the ice of a great bluff of lava
about 2000 ft high here we ride in comfort while the blast drives past overhead. If we do not get off tomorrow I will go ashore
see what I can learn. Have learned already since the snow ceased falling that all the region hereabouts has been glaciated
just like that 1000 miles to the Eastward. All the sculpture shows this clearly. How pleasant it seems to be able to walk
once more without holding on to heave your plate lie still on the table. It is clearing up. The mountains are seen in groups
rising back of one another All pure white The sailors are catching codfish. in margin: in circle 11 1 1881 Monday May
16, 4.P.M. Dear Louie, Since writing this forenoon we reached the mouth of the Strait that seperates Oonalaska Island from
the next to the Eastward against a strong headwind through rough snow squalls, when the Captain told me that he thought he
would not venture through the Strait today because the swift flood tide setting through the Strait against the wind was surely
raising a dangerously rough sea but rather leek an anchorage somewhere in the lee of the bluffs, wait the fall of the wind.
As he approached the mouth of the Strait however he changed his mind determined to try it. When the vessel began to pitch
heavily the hatches skylights were in margin: there are two waterfalls opposite our harbor Goodnight to all oh if I could
touch my baby illegible