’On the following day, the ice remaining as before, the work was continued without intermission, and a great quantity of things landed.  The two carpenters, Messrs. Pulfer and Fiddis, took the Fury’s boats in hand themselves, their men being required as part of our physical strength in clearing the ship.  The armourer was also set to work on the beach in forging bolts for the martingales of the outriggers.  In short, every living creature among us was somehow or other employed, not even excepting our dogs, which were set to drag up the stores on the beach, so that our little dockyard soon exhibited the most animated scene imaginable.  The quickest method of landing casks, and other things not too weighty, was that adopted by Captain Hoppner, and consisted of a hawser secured to the ship’s mainmast head, and set up as tight as possible to the anchor on the beach,—­the casks being hooked to a block traversing on this as a jack stay, were made to run down with great velocity.  By this means, more than two were got on shore for every one handed by the boats; the latter, however, being constantly employed in addition.  The Fury was thus so much lightened in the course of the day, that two pumps were now nearly sufficient to keep her free, and this number continued requisite until she was hove down.  Her spirit room was now entirely clear, and on examination the water was found to be rushing in through two or three holes that happened to be in the ceiling, and which were immediately plugged up.  Indeed it was now very evident that nothing but the lightness of the Fury’s diagonal ceiling had so long kept her afloat, and that any ship not thus fortified within could not possibly have been kept free by the pumps.

’At night, just as the people were going to rest, the ice began to move to the southward, and soon after came in towards the shore, again endangering the Fury’s rudder, and pressing her over on her side to so alarming a degree, as to warn us that it would not be safe to lighten her much more in her present insecure situation.

’One of our bergs also shifted its position by this pressure, so as to weaken our confidence in the pier heads of our intended basin; and a long ‘tongue’ of one of them, forcing itself under the Hecla’s fore-foot, while the drift-ice was also pressing her forcibly from astern, she once more sewed three or four feet forward at low water, and continued to do so, notwithstanding repeated endeavours to haul her off, for four successive tides, the ice remaining so close, and so much doubled under the ship, as to render it impossible to move her a single inch.

’Notwithstanding the state of the ice, however, we did not remain idle on the 8th, all hands being employed in unrigging the Fury, and landing all her spars, sails, booms, boats, and other top weight.