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escaped with a few trivial frost-bites. So far all was very 

 satisfactory, the general health good, and the eagerness of 

 my crew to commence travelling quite charming. 



Young proposed carrying out another depot to the north- 

 west, in order to explore well up Sir John Franklin Strait, 

 and would have started on the 17th, but the weather was 

 too severe. The day was spent in a fruitless search for three 

 casks of sugar — a serious and unaccountable deficiency — 

 but, as it was important to replace them with as little delay 

 as possible, Young set off on the 18th, although it blew a 

 N.W. gale at the time, with two men and eighteen dogs, for 

 Fury Beach ; failing to find the requisite quantity there, he 

 will go on to Port Leopold. 



Boothian Mother and Infant. 



