272 YOUNG RETURNS SAFELY. Chap. XVI. 



ing on the ice, and the watercourse by which our sledges 

 ascended a week before to the Long Lake was now a strong 

 and rapid stream. A few reindeer were seen. 



On the 27 th I sent three of the men back to the ship, and 

 with Thompson and the dogs went on to Pemmican Rock, 

 where, to our great joy, we happily met Young and his party, 

 who had but just returned there, after a long and successful 

 journey, the particulars of which I will give hereafter. 



Young was greatly reduced in flesh and strength, so 

 much weakened indeed that for the last few days he had 

 travelled on the dog sledge ; Harvey — also far from well — 

 could just manage to keep pace with the sledge ; his malady 

 was scurvy. Their journies had been very depressing ; 

 most dismal weather, low dreary limestone shores devoid 

 of game, and no trace of the lost expedition. The news of 

 our success in the southern journies greatly cheered them. 

 On the following day we were all once more on board, and 

 indulging in an enormous consumption of eatables, such as 

 only those can do who have been much reduced by long- 

 continued fatigue and exposure to cold. Venison, ducks, 

 beer, and lemon-juice, daily; preserved apples and cran- 

 berries three times a week ; and pickled whaleskin — a 

 famous antiscorbutic — ad libitum for all who liked it. The 

 weather, which for the last week had been wet, windy, 

 and miserable, now set in fair. The carpenter's hammer, and 

 the men's voices at their work, were new and animating 

 sounds. 



