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cog-wheel the other day, was set going again. In the 

 afternoon a couple of the puppies began fighting over a 

 bone, when one of them fell underneath one of the cog- 

 wheels on the axle of the mill, and was dragged in between 

 it and the deck. Its poor little body nearly made the 

 whole thing come to a standstill ; and, unfortunately, no 

 one was on the spot to stop it in time. I heard the 

 noise, and rushed on deck ; the puppy had just been 

 drawn out nearly dead ; the w r hole of its stomach was 

 torn open. It gave a faint whine, and was at once put out 

 of its misery. Poor little frolicsome creature ! Only a 

 little while ago you were gambolling around, enjoying an 

 innocent romp with your brothers and sisters ; then came 

 the thigh-bone of a bear trundling along the deck from 

 the galley ; you and the others made a headlong rush for 

 it, and now there you lie, cruelly lacerated and dead as 

 a herring. Fate is inexorable ! 



"Sunday, October 3ist. N. lat. 82 0*2'; E. long. 

 114 9'. It is late in the evening, and my. head is 

 bewildered, as if I had been induloino- in a regular 



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debauch, but it was a debauch of a very innocent nature. 

 " A grand banquet to-day to celebrate the eighty-second 

 degree of latitude. The observation gave 82 o'2'last night, 

 and we have now certainly drifted a little farther north. 

 Honey-cakes (gingerbread) were baked for the occasion, 

 first-class honey- cakes, too, you may take my word for 

 it ; and then, after a refreshing snow-shoe run, came a 

 festal banquet. Notices were stuck up in the saloon 



