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tea, and this alteration in the diet was reported on favour- 

 ably by everyone without exception. Doubtless tea 

 is preferred by the men, but the long halt of at least 

 an hour, required for boiling water and preparing the 

 tea, must completely chill the sledgers, and cannot, in 

 my opinion, be advantageous. On this journey atten- 

 tion was drawn to the fact that the barrels of the 

 breech-loading fowling-pieces became contracted by 

 the cold to such an extent that the paper cartridges 

 which at a higher temperature fitted well could not 

 be inserted until the outside paper had been stripped 

 off. 



Markham reported that during the return journey 

 one of the Eskimo dogs that had been abandoned by 

 Lieutenant Aldrich joined his party, and prowled about 

 at a distance of from four to five hundred yards, but 

 nothing would induce her to approach nearer during 

 the day. This dog remained near them until the day 

 before they arrived on board, when she disappeared 

 and was not seen for several weeks. 



The results of the autumn sledge journeys were, 

 the advance of a large depot of provisions for use in 

 the following spring, an invaluable additional ex- 

 perience in Arctic travelling, and further, by our 

 greater good fortune in finding continuous land over 

 or near which to travel, we succeeded in wresting from 

 Sir Edward Parry and his companions their gallantly 

 achieved distinction of having advanced the British 

 Flag to the highest northern latitude. 



The names of Sir Edward Parry and his followers 

 have been given to the newly discovered land to the 

 westward of Cape Joseph Henry in about latitude 

 82° 45' N., the parallel to which they attained in 1827. 



