822 YOUNG EETUENS SAFELY. Chap. XVI. 



on to Pemmican Eock, where, to our great joy, 

 we happily met Young and his party, who had 

 but just returned there, after a long and suc- 

 cessful journey, the particulars of which I will 

 give hereafter. 



Young was greatly reduced in flesh and 

 strength, so much weakened indeed that for the 

 last few days he had travelled on the dog 

 sledge ; Harvey — also far from well — could just 

 manage to keep pace with the sledge ; his 

 malady was scurvy. Their journies had been 

 very depressing ; most dismal weather, low 

 dreary limestone shores devoid of game, and 

 no traces of the lost expedition. The news of 

 our success in the southern journies greatly 

 cheered them. On the following day we were 

 all once more on board, and indulging in such 

 rapid consumption of eatables as only those can 

 do who have been much reduced by long-con- 

 tinued fatigue and exposure to cold. Venison, 

 ducks, beer, and lemon-juice, daily ; preserved 

 apples and cranberries three times a-week ; and 

 pickled whaleskin — a famous antiscorbutic — 

 ad libitum for all who liked it. The weather, 

 which for the last week had been wet, windy, 

 and miserable, now set in fair. The carpenter's 

 hammer, and the men's voices at their work, 

 were new and animating sounds. 



