162 THE VOYAGE OF THE JEANNETTE. 



October 29th, Wednesday. — Weather clear and pleas- 

 ant, and a perfectly splendid evening. Full moon, bright 

 starlight, and, as the day ended, not a cloud. Land seen 

 to-day in greater extent than yesterday, and beyond 

 the then bearings. Mr. Dunbar and Alexey started out 

 early this morning to endeavor to find the missing wal- 

 ruses of yesterday. They took with them a team of 

 dogs. On the w^ay one of the dogs (Dandy, or Bingo) 

 got out of his harness and escaped, much to the disgust 

 of the other dogs, who attempted to chase him. Alexey 

 in his peculiar language remarked, " Bom bye, other 

 dogs him plenty whip " (for his desertion). After hav- 

 ing failed to secure the walruses, the party returned to 

 the ship. About a half hour after the return, the 

 quartermaster came to me and reported that Bingo 

 had been killed in a fight. Alexey's prediction came 

 true. Though three or four hours had elapsed, the 

 dogs remembered the circumstance of the desertion, 

 and finding Bingo at a safe distance from the ship 

 had pitched into him and chewed him so badly before 

 Erickson could reach them that he died within ten min- 

 utes of being carried on board ship, — the first death in 

 our brute associates. We skinned him to have his coat 

 for future wearing apparel, and his carcass lies frozen 

 on the deck-house roof for possible food for his mur- 

 derers. 



October oOth, Thursday. — The doctor relates a curi- 

 ous dream he had last night. He seemed to be accom- 

 panying the survivors of Sir John Franklin's last expe- 

 dition on their journey to the Great Fish River, when 

 suddenly he changed his base to this ship's cabin, and 

 began explaining to Sir John Franklin there present 

 some of our articles of outfit, such as Edison's electric 

 machine, the anemometer, and the telephone. Frank- 



