WORLDS WONDERS. 



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when Sergeant Bruinerd reached them and gave them some hot 

 tea and soup and started back to hurry up the relief party, which 

 arrived ten hours later. Lieutenant Lockwood and Dr. Pavy 

 hauled Elison into camp, Fredericks and Linn walking. Elison's 

 feet were frozen beyond cure and all his fingers and thumbs 

 were lost. Linn never fully recovered from the exposure. Rice 

 was unable to move for a day, and Fredericks was prostrated for 



ELISON'S COMRADES ASSISTING HIM ON THE MARCH. 



two days. Elisoii was carefully cared for and lived through the 

 whole winter, receiving the best of rations and more than the 

 others, and only died on July 8. His joy at his rescue and his 

 terrible suffering were more than his weakened constitution could 

 stand. 



This calamitous failure to bring the meat from Isabella Camp 

 plunged the already despairing party into more wretched woe ; 

 their few stores, though portioned out in exceedingly small 



