On the 23d, at noon, we were in the latitude of 62° 22ʹ S., longitude 110° 24ʹ. In the afternoon, we passed an ice-island. The wind, which blew fresh, continued to veer to the west; and at eight o’clock the next morning, it was to the north of west, when I steered S. by W. and S. S. W. At this time we were in the latitude of 63° 20ʹ S., longitude 108° 7ʹ W. and had a great sea from S. W. We continued this course till noon the next day, the 25th, when we steered due south. Our latitude, at this time, was 65° 24ʹ S., longitude 109° 31ʹ W.; the wind was at north; the weather mild and not unpleasant; and not a bit of ice in view. This we thought a little extraordinary; as it was but a month before, and not quite two hundred leagues to the east, that we were, in a manner, blocked up with large islands of ice, in this very latitude. Saw a single pintadoe peterel, some blue peterels, and a few brown albatrosses. In the evening, being under the same meridian, and in the latitude of 65° 44ʹ S., the variation was 19° 27ʹ E.; but the next morning, in the latitude of 66° 20ʹ S., longitude the same as before, it was only 18° 20ʹ E.: probably the mean between the two, is the nearest the truth. At this time, we had nine small islands in sight; and soon after, we came, the third time, within the antarctic polar circle, in the longitude of 109° 31ʹ W. About noon, seeing the appearance of land to the S. E., we immediately trimmed our sails and stood towards it. Soon after it disappeared, but we did not give it up till eight o’clock the next morning, when we were well assured that it was nothing but clouds, or a fog-bank; and then we resumed our course to the south, with a gentle breeze at N. E. attended with a thick fog, snow, and sleet. We now began to meet with ice islands more frequently than before; and, in the latitude of 69° 38ʹ S., longitude 108° 12ʹ W., we fell in with a field of loose ice. As we began to be in want of water, I hoisted out two boats and took up as much as yielded about ten tons. This was cold work; but it was now familiar to us. As soon as we had done, we hoisted in the boats, and afterwards made short boards over that part of the sea we had, in some measure, made ourselves acquainted with. For we had now so thick a fog that we could not see two hundred yards round us; and as we knew not the extent of the loose ice, I durst not steer to the south till we had clear weather. Thus we spent the night, or rather that part of the twenty-four hours which answered to night; for we had no darkness but what was occasioned by fogs.