374 VOYAGE TO 'THE POLAR SEA. May 



tables. We are unwilling for the men to suspect that 

 they are really suffering from this terrible disease, but 

 at the same time are issuing to those attacked a small 

 quantity out of the very little limejuice we brought 

 away with us. It is given to them in lieu of their 

 grog, as being a better blood-purifier. We have only 

 two bottles on each sledge of this excellent anti-scor- 

 butic. It is another beautifully warm sunny clay, with 

 the temperature only a degree or two below zero. 

 Made a start at half-past twelve by advancing with 

 one sledge with half its load and two invalids upon it. 

 This was dragged up to the extreme of yesterday's 

 road-making, a distance of three-quarters of a mile, 

 w T hen the tent w 7 as pitched, the invalids placed inside, 

 and the sledge taken back, again loaded, and again 

 advanced with two more invalids ; v the men returning 

 and bringing up the other tw r o sledges, with the re- 

 mainder of the gear and the fifth invalid, one at a 

 time. It was past eight o'clock before the last sledge 

 arrived, and though we had only made good three- 

 quarters of a mile, so tortuous was our road, winding 

 round and about the hummocks, that to accomplish 

 this distance w T e marched between six and seven miles 

 through very deep snow. After the tents were pitched, 

 a party of road-makers were advanced to prepare a 

 road through the hummocks. 



< 10^A. — There was a slight fall of snow during 

 the day, when the temperature rose to 15°. Distance 

 made good three-quarters of a mile. 



' After very serious consideration, I have arrived at 

 the conclusion, though sorely against my inclination, 

 that this must be our most northern camp. With fixe 



