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lect still perfect, having a desire for food, with- 

 out the means of gratifying it, and feeling the 

 gradual inroad of the frost upon their apartment, 

 without strength to replenish the dying em- 

 bers, it is to be hoped they did not long survive 

 the time at which that paragraph was penned. 



Their bodies were found the summer following, 

 by the ships which were purposely sent from 

 Holland to inquire into their fate ; and their 

 discovery is thus related in Churchiirs Collection : 

 i( The man who got first on shore happened to 

 come to the back door of the hut, which he 

 broke open, and running upstairs, found the car- 

 cass of a dog upon the floor, which had been laid 

 there to dry. Making the best of his way down 

 again, he trod upon the carcass of another dog, 

 and from thence, passing through a door towards 

 the front door, he stumbled in the dark over the 

 bodies of the men, whom they saw (after the 

 window was opened) all together in the same 

 place, viz. three in coffins, two in their respective 

 cabins, and the other two upon a sail, spread upon 

 the floor, with their knees drawn up to their 

 chins." Their bodies were placed in coffins, and 

 deposited outside the huts; and as the ground 

 was frozen too hard for graves to be dug, large 

 stones were placed upon the lids to prevent u the 

 ravenous beasts from digging up their carcasses." 



