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the northward. Some minor objects might also 
be enumerated, which render it desirable that 
such a survey should be undertaken; for Euro- 
peans have seen so little of the interior of Arctic 
lands, that, had we no other object, that alone 
would be a sufficient motive for undertaking such 
a journey, more particularly as it happens to be a 
time when nothing else can be done, as although 
the weather is very fine, the ice on the harbour is 
dissolving but slowly, so that there is no imme- 
diate prospect of an open sea. We are to take 
three weeks’ provisions with us, two tents, and se- 
veral bundles of dry weod for fuel, these articles, 
being, as it were, public property, are to be car- 
ried in the cart.* Every officer and. man is be- 
sides to carry a certain number of articles, (for 
his own particular use,) of which a list has been 
made, in order that they may furnish themselves 
accordingly. These are.a blanket, a spare pair of 
shoes, two spare pair of stockings, a flannel shirt, 
and a number of smaller articles, that hardly de- 
serve to be specified separately ; let it suffice, that 
the whole of every individual’s private baggage, 
weighs from eighteen to twenty-four pounds. We 
carry it in. knapsacks; the officers have one each, 
and the men a knapsack between every two. Be- 
sides the articles above-mentioned, we have three 
fowling-pieces, and two pistols, with a consider- 
able quantity of ammunition, by means of which, 
we may presume, on being able to add a little to 
our stock of provisions on our way. 
* The weight of every thing on the cart was altogether about 
S00 Ibs. 
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