| Summary: | skirt n In [the ship] passing through a thin skirt of ice, one of the men/ hooked up a young seal with his gaff. i, 318 a very heavy gale blowing from south-west. We have the vessel to, under the lee of a thin skirt of ice, and I witnessed the sea in the grandest aspect I think I ever saw it. There [reverse] was no ice to windward of us but this thin skirt about a mile broad, which was marked into small round pieces about a foot wide, forming a perfect mosaic pavement on a gigantic scale. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit WK. Used I Used I 1 Used I SKEIN, STRING Slip contents partially used, starting on the 7th line. Reverse side of S_17167.
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