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vious year. All hands hunted every day, especially as the 

 doctor wanted fresh meat for the Indian Alexai, who was 

 said to have the scurvy, and suffered very greatly from ab- 

 scesses on his leg. On May 1st, Dr. Ambler reported the 

 physical condition of the crew rapidly deteriorating, and six 

 or seven were placed on whiskey and quinine to tone them 

 up. The weather at this time was good, and there were no 

 spring gales. Of course when I say good, it is in an Arctic 

 sense. 



JEANNETTE ISLAND. 



During the month of May, old man Dunbar was always in 

 the crow's-nest, and got blind several times. The old gentle- 

 man was looking out sharp for land, and about the 16th of 

 May he was the first to announce it in sight. You can im- 

 agine the excitement it caused, for we had not seen land for 

 many months and had not set foot on it for nearly two years. 



Jcannette Island, as the new land was called, was not 

 landed on, but the astronomical position of it could be, and 

 doubtless was, well established from the data obtained by 

 Captain De Long. It was by triangulation, on the base ea- 



