14th.  Jonathan roused us at four in the morning, the wind being in our favour, and we immediately made preparations to depart.  After breakfast, as we were praying the Litany, a sudden storm arose.  We were assembled in Jonathan’s tent, and the stones and pegs, with which it had been fastened down to the ground, being already removed, the tent-skins were soon blown about our heads by the violence of the wind, and we were now obliged patiently to wait till the storm abated.  In the midst of our deliberations, accompanied with expressions of our disappointment, Thukkekina gravely observed, that we might very likely get away this summer, and need not be dismayed.  Towards evening, it fell calm, and the musquitoes teazed us unmercifully.  We supped on fresh salmon, filled our tents with smoke, to keep off our winged tormentors, shut ourselves in, and forgot our grievances and Thukkekina’s consolations in sound sleep.

15th.  In the morning at three o’clock, we took a final leave of Nullatartok bay, and got under way with a favourable, though rather boisterous wind at S.W. having been detained here for twelve days by the ice.  After about an hour’s sail, we were near the entrance of the inlet, when a sudden gust from the mountains carried away our after-top-mast, with sail and tackle.  It fell with great noise on the deck, and into the sea.  By God’s mercy no one was hurt, and we were more particularly thankful, that of the five children on board, none were just then on deck.

It once happened, that the main-yard fell down, and but narrowly missed striking two children, who with a third were sitting and playing together.  They must inevitably have lost their lives, had it fallen upon them.  We praised God for their preservation during the whole voyage.  By the above-mentioned disaster, we were obliged to run into a small cove, where we repaired the mast with all speed, and proceeded with a gentle wind towards Nachvak.  A calm ensued, and as there is no anchorage between Nullatartok and Nachvak, we rowed all night, and felt the advantage of the great length of days, at this season of the year.

16th.  The view we had of the magnificent mountains of Nachvak, especially about sun-rise, afforded us and our Esquimaux great gratification.  Their south-east extremity much resembles Saddle island near Okkak, being high, steep, and of singular shape.  These mountains in general are not unlike those of Kaumayok for picturesque outline.  In one place, tremendous precipices form a vast amphitheatre, surmounted by a ledge of green sod, which seemed to be the resort of an immense number of sea-gulls and other fowls, never interrupted by the intrusion of man.  They flew with loud screams backwards and forwards over our heads, as if to warn off such unwelcome visitors.  In another place, a narrow chasm opens into the mountain, widening into a lagoon, the surrounding rocks resembling the ruins of a large Gothic building, with the green