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about midnight between the doctor and myself. Lee died 

 about noon. Read prayers for sick when we found he was 

 going. 



SATURDAY, Oct. 22d 132d day. Too weak to carry the 

 bodies of Lee and Kaack out on the ice. The doctor, Col- 

 lins and myself carried them around the corner out of sight. 

 Then my eye closed up. 



SUNDAY, Oct. 23d, 133d day. Everybody pretty weak. 

 Slept or rested to-day, and then managed to get enough 

 wood in before dark. Read part of divine service. Suffer- 

 ing in our feet. No foot gear. 



MONDAY, Oct. 24th 134th day. A hard night. 



TUESDAY, Oct. 25th 135th day. 



WEDNESDAY, Oct. 26th 136th day. 



THURSDAY, Oct. 27th 137th day. Iverson broken down. 



FRIDAY, Oct. 28th 138th day. Iverson died during early 

 morning. 



SATURDAY, Oct. 29th 139th day. Dressier died during 

 the night. 



SUNDAY, Oct. 30th 140th day. Boyd and Gortz died 

 during the night. Mr. Collins dying. 



DE LONG'S DIARY. 



With reeling brain and stiffening limbs, that bleak October morn, 

 Our brave commander knelt, while we, his comrades, all forlorn, 

 Hugged close the fire of faggots piled against the icy wall, 

 And snow and ice around us beat, and clothed us like a pall. 



Close, aye, within the very flame we grouped in our despair, 



For God had surely left the lonely crew to perish there ! 



But in our breasts a rebel cry sunk softened with a tear, 



When brave DeLong spoke low of home and wives and children dear. 



His book and pencil in his hands, he essayed, with a smile, 

 To mark the closing record of our wanderings ; many a mile 

 Of frozen sea we'd trudged across, and many a league of snow, 

 And now, on Tit Ary's icy isle, we faced at last our foe. 



