290 Men Secured, hut a Team Wanting. [February, iser. 



sorbing his thoughts. Even the pack of wolves which swept over his 

 igloo near the ships, carrying off one of the dogs, is spoken of in his 

 journal as though it had happened as an ordinary occurrence, and as 

 though it were in the lonesomeness of Beacon Hill or among the In- 

 nuits at Noowook. He would not depart from his rough Arctic diet ; 

 nor in an}' other way unfit himself for the mission to whicli he still 

 thought himself called. But this was again suddenly aiTested. Be- 

 fore the first month of the new year closed, he found that he could 

 not possibly make up a dog-team for a new journey. He might lose 

 a whole third year, but this, at any sacrifice, he must endeavor to pre- 

 vent : now that volunteers are engaged, he must secure the dogs. 



