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was very small, not exceeding the size of a small calf or 

 goat, and was furnished with a pair of small, flat horns, 

 which some of our men, not inappropriately, compared to 

 the sails of a windmill. 



This night travelling has, I find, a very peculiar effect 

 on my constitution. I am not much addicted to sleep at 

 any time, and obtain but little calculated to support my 

 constitution; but on the march, generally about two A.M., 

 or after luncheon, I am frequently seized with an uncon- 

 querable and very painful stupor, compelling me to lie 

 down or sit on the sledge during the ten-minute halts. 

 Today I was compelled to do so in this bitter cold; 

 fortunately however finding an easy chair formed by 

 Nature out of some limestone rocks, which protected me 

 from the breeze. The doze ranges between ten and fif- 

 teen minutes, is heavy and concentrated, and seems to 

 satisfy nature : at least I find myself relieved, at the ex- 

 pense however of none during the allotted period for rest. 

 I scarcely touch spirits for days, never at these times, 

 one day's allowance (one gill) being sufficient for five 

 or six days. I recollect one occasion, when a long ex- 

 posure between Liverpool -and the Kibble had exhausted 

 me, that some kind friends noticing my head to fall at 

 evening service, most charitably attributed it to inebria- 

 tion. The truth was, that I had been ah 1 night and two 

 days without food, and had drunk too much sea air. 



The outer headland visited by us stands about one mile 

 within the Wellington Channel waters, the interval being 

 covered by a low, marshy belt projecting seaward, and 

 thus forming an opposite bay to that of Prince Alfred. 

 This fine height I named Mount Pym, after my esteemed 



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