1 76 SUFFERINGS. 



aware of this themselves, though they were not 

 wholly destitute of a hope that some of the 

 party might survive the severe trial to which 

 they were subjected. One of the party kept 

 a journal, which is interesting on many ac- 

 counts ; for, besides detailing their own suffer- 

 ings, it contains a minute register of the state of 

 the weather, the progress of the seasons, and the 

 various birds and animals which remain in those 

 seas during the winter. " On the 1st of January," 

 he observes, " having wished one another a happy 

 new year and good success in our enterprise, we 

 went to prayer to disburthen our hearts before 



God." 



The sun was first seen from the hills on the 

 1st of February, and from their hut on the 25th. 

 The reappearance of this luminary does not seem 

 to have excited in them those lively feelings 

 which were experienced by the former party; 

 indeed it is evident that the progress of their 

 malady was now rapidly working its deadly way 

 in their constitution, for they already began to 

 feel its serious effects in their bones ; their legs 

 swelled so that they could hardly bear them, and 

 towards the middle of March, says the journalist, 

 " we were so badly affected with the scurvy 

 that we began to be very heartless," insomuch 

 that, on the 3rd April, there were only two of 



