384 The Stores of 186G Still Safe. [Aprii, iseo. 



one of tlie women set the lamps agoing and melted the sea-ice for 

 water; the others covered in the huts, while Hall pounded up the whale- 

 blubber. 



When he arrived at the cache which he had made on May 10, 

 1867, by transfer of his stores from their deposit of 18C6, he found 

 them still in good condition; his notes, which give the time of this 

 arrival to the exact second of the hour on the 2d of the month, record 

 the expression, "Thanks be to God!" The bags of bread, sugar, 

 coffee, flour, and " Borden-meal biscuit" were frozen fast in a mass, 

 and in endeavoring to separate these, a large rent was made in a coffee- 

 bag, sacrificing a small part ; another portion had become sodden 

 by water finding its way from a sloping surface of rock near by into 

 the rubber bag; these bags, however, had preserved the virtue of 

 the larger part. The coffee had been presented by Mr. J. Carson 

 Brevoort, of New York; it was browned and ground by Hall in the 

 spring of 186G. The pemmican in the hermetically-sealed cans, the 

 sugar and the brandy, frost-proof, were found in perfect condition; the 

 tea was mouldy. The wdiole of these stores were at once removed to 

 camp, and an excellent supper was set for all. Of the brandy, one 

 tablespoon, sugar-sweetened, and with hot water, was served out to 

 each, the dose being repeated in fifteen minutes. The remembrance 

 of tliis article being in the deposit which lie helped to make in 1867 

 had already inspired "Jack" when approaching the cache and in his 

 w(nk of uneartliing it. For use on his return journey, Hall again 

 made a deposit of part of the stores just named under the same rock 

 at Cape Weynton which had covered them when left there in 1866. 



P^'roMi the Cape he was now to turn liis fiice westward to the long- 

 dcsiicd Kin;.'- W'illiiiin's Land; Ijut he at once experienced a renewal 



