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be applied — " Man proposes, but God disposes." 

 Back and his associates not only wintered, but were 

 wedged up by massive ice in the wide ocean for 

 nine whole months, from October to July, four of 

 which, as Captain Back graphically calls it, on 

 " an icy cradle ;" many scenes are also graphically 

 and beautifully expressed, in numerous exquisite 

 prints by Lieutenant (now Captain) Smyth. Yet 

 the Terror has survived it all, was three or four 

 years in the Antarctic Ocean, and is now with Sir 

 John Franklin in the Polar Seas. 



On the present occasion she was commanded, 

 officered, and manned as follows : — 



- Lieutenants. 



George Back, Captain. 



William Smyth, ' 



Owen Stanley, 



Arch. M'Murdo, 



Graham Gore, -j 



Kobert M'Clure, I Mates. 



Peter Fisher, J 



Charles Marcuard, Extra Mate. 



James Donovan, Surgeon. 



J. A. Mould, Assistant-Surgeon. 



William Lawes, Clerk in Charge. 



James Saunders, Acting Master. 



12 Officers. 



4 Warrant Officers. 



13 Petty Officers. 



44 Seamen and Marines. 



73 Total. 



It may as well be at once stated, that Smyth and 

 Stanley are now Captains ; Fisher and M'Murdo, 

 Commanders; Gore, M'Clure, and Marcuard, Lieu- 



