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stores placed there in 18GG. At noon he had witli great difBculty 

 taken an ''indifferent observation" of the sun, wliich gave for liis lati- 

 tude 67° 50' N, ; a gale with snow had prevailed during the preced- 

 ing twent3^-four hours. His anxiety to complete this journey and set 

 at rest the question of the safety of the cache will be inferred from 

 such incidents as the following: His "medicine" (treatment?) for 

 the snow-blind — i. e., tying up their eyes — had proved a charming 

 success. He polished the icing of his sled-runners by rubbing it on 

 with his bare hands, and found that after the first trial he could by 

 himself easily draw Too-koo-li-too, Frank, Silas, and Peter ; all tliree 

 seated upon a full load. To hurry up the tired and hungry dogs he 

 had adopted several expedients ; among these, sending some of the 

 men ahead, who, with a deer-bone and knife, at one time made strokes 

 as though cutting off meat, and at another cut up small pieces 

 of his Ig-loo-lik sledge and threw them into the air now and then 

 ahead, letting the dogs see that the pieces were how. This experiment 

 succeeded even in the case of a fagged-out animal in the rear when 

 he was transferred to the front ; the poor creature's efforts to get at 

 the much-desired meat were a great incentive to his followers. These 

 devices were practiced at a time when the weather was very thick. 

 At 11.10 p. m., he found himself by the side of the rock near which,, 

 in the previous spring, he had erected a little pile of stones represent- 

 ing Faith, Hope, and Charity, and, to his great satisfaction, on ham- 

 mering loose the stones from his cache, he discovered that all had 

 been unmolested except that a fox had eaten a portion of the oolc- 

 gooh skin which covered the trunk, and that Arctic mice had been 

 busily nibbling at his tent. At midnight, having loaded the sledge 

 with all the stores of the cache, he returned to his igloo, when the 



