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repeatedly at the track-lines ; but he delivered, with 

 punctilious accuracy, the messages I had sent by him 

 to Dr. Hayes I thought myself the soundest of all ; 

 for I went through all the formula of sanity, and can 

 recall the muttering delirium of my comrades when we 

 got back into the cabin of our brig. Yet I have been 

 told since of some speeches, and some orders, too, of 

 mine, which I should have remembered for their absurd- 

 ity, if my mind had retained its balance. 



" Petersen and Whipple came out to meet us about 

 two miles from the brig. They brought my dog-team, 

 with the restoratives I had sent for by Bonsall. I do 

 not remember their coming. Dr. Hayes entered with 

 judicious energy upon the treatment our condition 

 called for ; administering morphine freely, after the 

 usual frictions. He reported none of our brain-symp- 

 toms as serious, referring them properly to the class of 

 those indications of exhausted power which yield to a 

 generous diet and rest. Mr. Ohlsen suffered some time 

 from strabismus and blindness ; two others underwent 

 amputation of parts of the foot, without unpleasant 

 consequences ; and two died, in spite of all our efforts. 

 This rescue-party had been out for seventy-two hours. 

 We had halted in all eight hours, half of our number 

 sleeping at a time. We travelled between eighty and 

 ninety miles, most of the way dragging a heavy sledge. 

 The mean temperature of the whole time, including the 

 warmest hours of three days, was at minus 41. 2. We 

 had no water except at our two halts, and were at 

 no time able to intermit vigorous exercise without 

 freezing. 



"April^, Tuesday.- -Four days have passed, and I 



-am again at my record of failures, sound, but aching 



still in every joint. The rescued men are not out of 



