368 GREELY'S ARCTIC WINTER OF STARVATION 



seven of us left here we are dying like men. Did what I came 

 to do beat the record." 



Seven there were. Death had taken its toll of all the rest. A 

 clay or two more and not a man would have been alive. The careful 

 use of restoratives saved the survivors from death, and Adolphus 

 Greely still dwells among us, a man of high honor among his 

 countrymen. 



