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THE JEANNETTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



" None of the 

 dead had boots. 

 Their feet were 

 covered with rags, 

 tied on. In the 

 pockets of all were 

 pieces of burnt 

 skin and of the 

 clothing which 

 .they had been eat- 

 ing. The hands of 

 all were more or 

 less burned, and it 

 looked as if when 

 dying they had 

 crawled into the 

 fire, Boyd lying 

 over the fire and 

 his clothing being 

 g burned through to 

 the skin, which 

 was not burned. 

 Collins's face was 

 covered with a 

 cloth." 



The tent had 

 been pitched in a 

 deep gorge in the 

 river bank. The 

 bodies of Gortz 

 and Boyd were the 

 first tAvo found. 

 Iverson and Dress- 

 ier were lying side 

 by side just out- 

 side of where the 



