104 SCORBUTIC AFFECTIONS. [February, 



experience strong southerly gales on the southern side, 

 where the 'North Star' winters, no such breeze appears 

 to extend up Wellington Channel, or even into Union 

 Bay! 



The mean temperature of the last ten days affords the 

 coldest, for the month, which I believe has been hitherto 

 recorded, being ten degrees in excess of any experienced 

 amongst Arctic navigators. When I give this as a re- 

 cord, I beg it to be understood as the corrected tempera- 

 ture of the mean of the ten best standard thermometers, 

 supplied from the Observatories of Greenwich and Kew. 



H.M.S. Heclain 1820 32'213 



1824 26-445 



Enterprise, 1849 37'570 



Resolute, 1851 32-675 



Assistance, 1853 28'753 



1854 47-145 



With reference to my own health, none but those 

 immediately concerned may care to know that I suffered ; 

 but in cases similar to mine, and where the disease (I 

 mean scurvy) assumes such protean forms, it may not 

 prove uninteresting to the general reader to learn upon 

 what slender threads life may depend. I have before 

 remarked, in the cases of Harriss and Burnett, that I con- 

 sider the mind to have been materially engaged ; and it 

 is still my conviction that had hope of immediate remo- 

 val to England been at all feasible, the lives of both 

 these men would have been saved. But as regards my- 

 self, although I had fully made up my mind to die and 

 to rest from my labours in the Crystal Palace, I was 

 determined that I would continue, so long as life en- 



