In the Arctic Regions. Ill 



was producing a serious reduction in our Bto '; of 

 provisi 



As ii may be interesting to the reader to kn >w how 

 we passed our time at thi i of the 3 ■. I ball 



mention briefly, tint a considerable portion of it 1 

 occupied in writing up our journals. Borne oewspa- 

 pers ami magazines, that we had received fr m 1'.: - 

 land with <mr letters, were read again and again, ami 

 commented upon, at our meals ; an. I we often ea 



1 ourselves with conjecturing the changes that 

 might take place- in the world before we could ! 

 from it again. Tin- probability of our receiving 

 ters, and the period of their arrival, were calculated to 

 We occasionally paid the woodmen a visit, 

 vv took a walk for a mile or two on the river. 



In the evenings we joined the men in the hall, ami 

 took a pari in their games, which generally continued 

 ■{ late hour ; in Bhort, we never found the time to 

 hang heavy upon our hands ; and the peculiar occu- 

 pations of each of ti afforded them more em- 

 ployment than might a! . 1 

 ciliated the observations made on our route ; Mr. 



ll,,od protracted the charts, and made those drawings 

 of birds, plants, and tMies, which cannot appear in 

 this work, lint winch have been theadmirati >n of every 



one who has sen them. Each of the party se&ulous- 



ly and separately recorded their observations on the 



