580 THE VOYAGE OF THE JEANNETTE. 



night. Then moved all our boats to the front of the 

 tents, and the provisions to the front of the boats, and 

 had our supper in our new location. 



We carried out of the ship all the drinking water we 

 had on hand, and made it last until Sunday night ; but 

 now we are, of course, down to what we can scrape up 

 from the ice. We select the oldest and highest hum- 

 mocks, and scrape off the broken down crystals when 

 we can find them, but of course the sun has not haJ 

 power enough yet to do any great amount of melting. 



The snow, or rather ice, is fresh to the taste, but the 

 doctor, by a nitrate of silver test, finds it much too 

 salty. However, we cannot help ourselves, and must 

 with lime juice, which we take daily, try to avert the 

 danger. Just now we are living royally on good things, 

 and not working very hard, and we are in glorious 

 health, except for some occasional touches of the old 

 lead poisoning suspicion. Temperature at eight p. m. 

 18° and very damp. Wind N. E. At ten p. m. set the 

 watch and piped down. 



June lith, Tuesday. — Called all hands at seven A. m. ? 

 breakfasted and turned to by nine A. m. ; then set two 

 men from each tent, under Melville's direction, to get 

 together our sixty days' provisions, and to strip off all 

 wooden packages. The doctor, with one man, set to 

 work dividing up (and fortifying) the lime juice among 

 three water-breakers. Dunbar, with two men, over- 

 hauled and relashed the three McClintock sledges, to 

 get them ready for stowage and loading. The rest of 

 the men continued the work of making extra foot 

 nips, reducing sleeping-bags, and making such additions 

 to their comfort as were possible. Our sick-list is not 

 progressing favorably. Alexey was very sick all night 

 with stomach-ache, groaning all the time, and vomiting 



