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ground. Many things appear to have been covered with 

 the loose shingle, bags of coal and coke just appearing 

 through it scarcely above high-water mark. Amongst the 

 missing articles is the steam-engine. 



Although the flagstaff upon the summit of North East 

 Cape is still standing, the one erected upon this point and 

 almost the whole of the framing of the house lies prostrate. 

 The provisions appeared to be sound, but were not generally 

 examined. The whale-boat we removed from Cape Hotham 

 was landed here, and a record of our proceedings added to 

 the many which have accumulated here during the last ten 

 years. Some coke and a few things useful to us and merely 

 decaying here were taken on board, and by evening we were 

 again speeding onward with augmented resources, and the 

 confidence inspired by a secure depot in our rear ; buoyed 

 up moreover by the joyful anticipation of soon reaching the 

 goal of our long-deferred hopes. 



20th, noon. — Exactly off Fury Point. There is one large 

 iceberg far off in the S.E. ; no other ice in sight ! I would 

 have landed at Fury Beach to examine the remaining 

 supplies there, but a snow shower prevented our distinguish- 

 ing anything, and a strong tide carried us past before we 

 were aware of it. 



This morning, as one of the officers was scrutinising this 

 desperately barren land, and reflecting that in a few weeks 

 the whole sea would be frozen over, old Harvey stepped up 

 to him and remarked that " everything was looking werry 

 prosperous ; " but Harvey only looked ahead, and he saw no 

 ice there. He had no doubt a vivid recollection of intense 

 hardships undergone in the long sledging-parties of the 

 expeditions under Austin and Belcher, when he was a few 

 years younger, and well knew that every mile now sailed 

 towards the unexplored area would save us two miles of 

 sledge-dragging — a mile out and a mile home. 



