IS 58.] 



GAME KILLED. 



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mon, and that they promised, if lie waited until it was 

 cuight. The following list of game killed exhibits at 

 once the difference of our positions. 



KESOLUTE'S' LIST OF GAME KILLED BETWEEN SED OF 

 SEPTEMBER, 1852, AND GTH OF JUNE, 1853. 



We owe a deep debt of gratitude for all the mercies 

 vouchsafed unto us. In all these travels, dangers, and 

 difficulties, not one casualty has occurred, and health 

 has prevailed. The cutter sent for relief arrived at the 

 very moment required, and, as if every preparation had 

 been anticipated, the passage nearly to the ship's bow 

 was open. As Kellett and Richards both observe, " If 

 you had made your suggestions, orders, to be executed, 

 and drawn them out yourself on a fair sheet of paper, 

 they could not have been more completely realized." 

 The rendezvous, the discovered lands, south-west and 

 north-east, have, it is true, all terminated like dreams 

 realized or matters in course ; they have caused no ex- 



