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beef fat The warm pemmican is then run into strong tin 

 cases and becomes hard on cooling; our cases contained 

 42 lbs. each, they were oblong in shape, but with convex 

 ends, this form giving them greater strength to resist the 

 claws of the Bears. 



The Admiralty supplied us also with all the requisite 

 ice-gear, such as saws from ten to eighteen feet in length, 

 ice-anchors, and ice-claws : also with our winter housing, 

 medicines, pure lemon-juice, seamen's library, hydrographical 

 instruments, charts, chronometers, and an ample supply of 

 arctic clothing which had remained in store from former 

 expeditions. The Board of Trade contributed a variety of 

 meteorological and nautical instruments and journals; and I 

 found that I had but to ask of these departments for what 

 was required, and if in store it was at once granted. I 

 asked, however, for such things only as were indispensably 

 necessary. 



The President and Council of the Royal Society voted 

 the sum of 50/. from their donation fund for the purchase 

 of magnetic and other scientific instruments, in order that 

 our anticipated approach to so interesting a locality as the 

 Magnetic Pole might not be altogether barren of results. 



I was desirous to retain for my vessel the privileges she 

 formerly enjoyed as a yacht, and my wishes were very 

 promptly gratified : in the first instance by the Royal Har- 

 wich Yacht Club, of which my officers and myself were 

 enrolled as members — the Commodore, A. Arcedeckne, Esq., 

 presenting my vessel with the handsome ensign and burgee 

 of the Club ; and shortly afterwards by my being elected a 

 member of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club for the period 

 of my voyage. Lastly, upon the very day of sailing, I was 

 proposed for the Royal Yacht Squadron, to which the yacht 

 had previously belonged when the property of Sir Richard 

 Sutton. 



