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from his quarter, and they scented him and began to 

 run. He fired three or four shots after them but with- 

 out effect, and they fled westward, while he stood watch- 

 ing them till they were out of sight. 



Back he went to his disappointed companion, and 

 they started again southward, walking until it was quite 

 dark. The wind was blowing, and they camped down 

 on a point of land where a large bay made in to the 

 westward. It was the confluence of several streams, 



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and just beyond where, a week later, Captain De Long 

 and his party made their last camp. The two men col- 

 lected wood for a fire ; and making a little Arctic wil- 

 low tea and soaking and burning a boot-sole, they got 

 what nourishment they could, made bags of their blan- 

 kets, and crawling near the fire lay down for the night. 

 Now and then, as the cold penetrated, one or the other 

 would rouse himself, lay a little more wood on the fire, 

 and lie down again. 



