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THE WORLD'S WONDERS. 



crime. After what we have gone through, I hope this company 

 may be preserved from any fatal wrong. We can and we must 

 bear what God sends without crime. This party must not dis- 

 grace humanity by cannibalism." 



Some of the men had threatened to kill and eat the Esquimaux, 

 and the latter were in constant dread of that terrible fate ; but 

 Capt. Tyson had determined that if an attack should be made 

 upon them, he would stand by them and die with them. The 

 following night he writes : 



A NIGHT OF HORROR. 



" One more day got over without a catastrophe. The ice is 

 still the same. We keep an hour- watch now through the 

 night. The men are too weak to keep up long together. 

 Some one has been at the pemmican. This is not the first 

 time. I know the men; there are three of them. They 

 have been the three principal pilferers of the party. I should 

 not blame them much for taking food, but of course all the 

 others will have less in consequence. We have but a few days' 



