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has been brought on board, but the "scribing" 

 upon it is very indistinct, and unintelligible to 

 us. The flour is of the ordinary description 

 used in the navy, and known as " seconds ; " 

 most of it was good, and a plain pudding made 

 of it for our mess could not be distinguished 

 from fresh flour. A specimen has been pre- 

 served with the view of identifying it with the 

 Fury Beach or Port Leopold stores of flour. 

 With the exception of a solitary bear, the 

 party saw no living creatures. The shore 

 along which they travelled was a very low 

 shingly limestone. 



Last evening I was dehghted to see Young 

 and his two dog-sledges heave in sight; he 

 brought about 8 cwt. of sugar from Fury Beach, 

 but not without much difficulty, owing to the 

 roughness of the pack in Creswell Bay, and 

 also to the breaking down of one of his sledges ; 

 to avoid this pack he found it necessary to 

 travel nearly all round Creswell Bay. Cape 

 Garry he describes as a gradually-curved extent 

 of flat land, and not the decided cape it appears 

 to be upon the chart ; two reindeer were seen 

 near it, and during the journey four bears ; no 

 other animals were met with. His labours had 

 been very severe ; one sledge broke down and 

 all the sugar had to be piled upon the other : 



