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suffocation for want of an outlet for smoke, or intense cold for 

 want of a fire. 



Fortunately there was no want of fresh meat — twenty-nine 

 Walruses and thirty-six Bears were killed and eaten. A dog 

 which they had with them proved most useful in giving notice 

 by growls of the presence of a Bear or Walrus, and on one 

 occasion saved the lives of the whole crew, who were starving, 

 by leading them to where three Walruses were lying on 

 the ice. 



Thus the months passed wearily until, in the month of June 

 last, a gale cleared away the ice, and enabled four boats to start 

 from Cape Flora, provisioned for sixty days. Pushing southward 

 they occasionally met with water, but sometimes had to rest for 

 days upon a floe, until after six weeks' hardship they reached 

 open water, and were then enabled to shape their course for 

 Nova Zembla, where, on August 2nd, in Matotchkin Straits, they 

 met the relief expedition which had gone in search of them. 



Thus, after being ice-bound for twelve months, they arrived 

 safely in port, without the loss of a single life, and with no worse 

 a result of the undertaking than the loss of the yacht, and the 

 serious anxieties and fears experienced for a whole year by 

 relatives and friends at home. 



Owing to the wreck of the vessel, the owner states that the 

 scientific results of the voyage are almost nil. The following 

 extract, however, from the journal written at Cape Flora will be 

 read with interest, as containing an account of the principal 

 mammals and birds observed during the period of imprisonment 

 on that ice-bound Cape : — 



"On July 25th, 1881, we reached Gray Bay, at Cape Grant 

 and Cape Crowther. There are large loomeries a short distance 

 up the bay on the water side. Many Botches (Little Auks) had 

 their young among the basaltic columns of the lofty cliffs. Other 

 birds were also seen, including the Snow-bird (Ivory Gull), 

 the Molly, the Boatswain (Common Skua), the Arctic Tern, 

 Dovekies (Black Guillemots), the Eider Ducks, the Burgomaster 

 (Glaucous Gull), and the Kittiwake. At the east side, near the 

 head of Gray Bay, there were a good number of Snow-birds and 

 Dovekies building, but too high up for one to obtain the eggs. 

 At Cape Stephen there was a large loomery, and at Cape Forbes 

 a lew Looms (Guillemots), a number of Botches and Dove- 



