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entailed considerable delay. Fortunately we were thus 

 aided throughout our journey. 



On reaching the Sergeant's command at Baring Ren- 

 dezvous (Cape Bowden), I found that he and his aid had 

 shot 108 dovekies, which, added to others shot by my 

 worthy companions, Nares and Jenkins, en route, afforded 

 our crews a comfortable addition to their rations, and 

 also a supply for the ship. Two sledges having deposited 

 their cargoes here, returned to the 'Assistance.' 



At this depot we had now accumulated sufficient ra- 

 tions, fuel, etc., to aid our entire crews, should necessity 

 impel them to seek this route. About midnight on the 

 16th we entered Union Bay, where we were immediately 

 discovered from the Island Station, and a party of twenty 

 men, forwarded by Captain Kellett to aid our men, joined 

 most opportunely, for they had not been applied more 

 than ten minutes to the drag-ropes of the gig when her 

 sledge broke down, and it was found necessary to drag 

 her on her keel the remainder of the journey. 



Whilst engaged on this duty, Mr. Jenkins, ever alive 

 to his duty, and encouraging his men, received a very 

 severe squeeze between the boat and a piece of ice, com- 

 pletely crippling him for many days. 



About two A.M., on entering the floe of Erebus and 

 Terror Bay, I was met by Captain Kellett, M'Clure, Pul- 

 len, and M'Clintock, and very shortly after safely lodged 

 in the depot enjoying the appellation of ' Northumberland 

 House.' Indeed, from the care and attention manifest in 

 all the preparations for rny comfort by Captain Kellett 

 and Pullen, I feel satisfied that I enjoyed myself infi- 

 nitely more, and in my own way, than if I had been at 



