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his life while out on the ice-floes walrusing" with Joe. But his chief 

 ailment was a sharp and severe pain in his left breast, arising- from the 

 strained and uruiatural position which he was obliged to take when 

 writing his journals. "Of all the work ever accomplished in the north- 

 ern regions, nothing had done him the one hundredth ])art of the 

 injury which journalizing did." 



So far as he found it possible under the circumstances to form any 

 matured plan for his advance, he sketched a rough outline including 

 the points: — that on arriving at Repulse Bay he must establish his 

 headquarters and go in with his company of Innuits for reindeer- 

 hunting to lay up a stock of provision for the following winter; that 

 during the winter (1865-66) he would make a sledge journey to 

 Boothia Felix and King William's Land, and be on band for summer 

 work in the latter of these; that he would spend the winter of 1866-67 

 with the Innuits of Boothia Felix, many of whom really winter near 

 King William's Land: and having completed, as he hoped, all his 

 work, by the summer of 1867 he would be ready for home. 



When writing of this to Chapel, of the Monticello, he said : 



Eemember that I purj)ose to go to that ])art of the world Avhere one hun- 

 dred and thirty choicely picked men — the very flower of the English Xavy — all 

 perished, save three, in one short month or so by cold and .starvation. I cannot 

 accomplish what I have nndertaken except by the greatest caution. I and my 

 companions may never return, though I do not entertain the thought that such an 

 event is probable. There is more to be feared that we may fall by the treachery 

 of the evil disposed portion of the natives than by cold and starvation; but as I 

 shall make deposits of records at TJepulse Bay and at other places, and shall 

 describe how they can be found, if we do perish, the world can still learn what I 

 have accomplished. 



The necessity for his delay after he should reach Repulse Bay, 



arose from the fact that it would be entirely too late on his arrival 



