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in his ship, put in requisition all their anti-scor- 

 butics for his recovery, consisting of preserved vege- 

 table soups, lemon juice and sugar, pickles, pre- 

 served currants and gooseberries, and spruce-beer. 

 He also raised in his cabin a quantity of mustard 

 and cress, of which, even in the severity of the 

 winter, he could generally ensure a crop at the end 

 of the sixth or seventh day. So effectual were these 

 remedies in Scallon's case that, on the ninth evening 

 from the attack, he was able to walk about on the 

 lower deck, and "he assured me," says Parry, 

 " that he could then run a race/' 



Thursday, the 3rd of February, was a day not to 

 be forgotten. At twenty minutes before apparent 

 noon the sun was seen from the Hecla's main-top 

 (at the height of fifty-one feet above the sea), being 

 the first time that this luminary had been visible to 

 them since the 11th of November — a period, as 

 already said, of eighty-four days, that is, twelve clays 

 less than the time of its remaining actually beneath 

 the horizon, independently of the effects of atmo- 

 spherical refraction. Throughout February, how- 

 ever, the intensity of the cold, instead of being some- 

 what mitigated by the rays of the sun, feeble as 

 they were, was increased. On the 24th a fire broke 

 out in the shore-house, and in the exertions to save 

 the valuable instruments, not fewer than sixteen 

 men incurred frost-bites, the thermometer during 

 the day being from — 43° to - 44°. 



