We had baffling light winds all the afternoon, so that we made but little progress; and the weather was not clear enough to enable us to determine the extent of the land before us.  We supposed it to be one of the many islands laid down by Mr Staehlin, in his map of the New Northern Archipelago; and we expected every moment to see more of them.[4]

[Footnote 4:  The opinion here given, we shall find, is afterwards corrected; and the land in question proved to be a discovery unknown to the Russians.—­E.]

At four in the afternoon of the 30th, Point Upright bore N.W. by N., six leagues distant.  About this time, a light breeze springing up at N.N.W., we stood to the N.E. till four o’clock next morning, when the wind veering to the eastward, we tacked, and stood to the N.W.  Soon after the wind came to S.E.; and we steered N.E. by N.; which course we continued, with soundings from thirty-five to twenty fathoms, till next day at noon.  At this time we were in the latitude of 60 deg. 58’, and in the longitude of 191 deg..  The wind now veering to N.E., I first made a stretch of ten leagues to the N.W.; and then, seeing no land in that direction, I stood back to the eastward about fifteen leagues, and met with nothing but pieces of drift-wood.  The soundings were from twenty-two to nineteen fathoms.

Variable, light winds, with showers of rain, prevailed all the 2d; but fixing in the S.E. quarter in the morning of the 3d, we resumed our course to the northward.  At noon, we were, by observation, in the latitude of 62 deg. 34’, our longitude was 192 deg., and our depth of water sixteen fathoms.

Mr Anderson, my surgeon, who had been lingering under a consumption for more than twelve months, expired between three and four this afternoon.  He was a sensible young man, an agreeable companion, well skilled in his own profession, and had acquired considerable knowledge in other branches of science.  The reader of this Journal will have observed how useful an assistant I had found him in the course of the voyage; and had it pleased God to have spared his life, the public, I make no doubt, might have received from him such communications, on various parts of the natural history of the several places we visited, as would have abundantly shewn that he was not unworthy of this commendation.[5] Soon after he had breathed his last, land was seen to the westward, twelve leagues distant.  It was supposed to be an island; and, to perpetuate the memory of the deceased, for whom I had a very great regard, I named it Anderson’s Island.  The next day, I removed Mr Law, the surgeon of the Discovery, into the Resolution, and appointed Mr Samuel, the surgeon’s first mate of the Resolution, to be surgeon of the Discovery.

[Footnote 5:  Mr Anderson’s Journal seems to have been discontinued for about two months before his death; the last date in his MSS. being of the 3d of June.—­D.