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very fatiguing; many suffered from nausea and headache, and the 

 desire for water redoubled in both whites and natives. For water 

 they could no longer find a substitute in berries, as they had previ- 

 ously done, for that fruit had disappeared, and the only vegetation left 

 was a few tufts of grass. 



About noon. Dr. Judd volunteered to proceed with the guide to 

 ascertain if there was any snow, and at what distance. It was agreed 

 that we should continue to move on in the same direction, and en- 

 camp when we found we could get no higher. Most of the party 

 were now lying about on the rocks, with the noonday sun pouring on 

 them ; a disposition to sleep, and a sensation and listlessness similar 

 to that produced by sea-sickness, seemed to prevail. I felt the former 

 strongly myself, and enjoyed as sound an hour's sleep on the hard 

 lava as I have ever had. The burdens had become intolerably heavy, 

 and all complained of their inability to carry them. The use of the 

 sextant had become still more fatiguing than the day before, causing 

 me much pain to hold it. From what I myself experienced, I was 

 satisfied that every one's strength had decreased nearly one-half 



We managed, after an hour's rest, to go on two miles further, and 

 then encamped. No place offered where we could drive a peg for the 

 tents, and loose blocks of lava were resorted to, to confine the cords. 

 The principal inducement for stopping at this spot was the discovery 

 of a large tunnel, or cave, in which the men could be accommodated, 

 and which was at a sufficient distance from the Sunday Station for a 

 day's journey. This station was afterwards known as the Recruiting 

 Station, because all the sick and wounded from the higher stations 

 were sent here as to an hospital. 



Long after we had finished our arrangements for the night, and 

 even after it had become dark, we looked in vain for Dr. Judd and 

 his companion. We therefore lighted our fires as a signal to him, 

 and were soon rejoiced to see him safely back. He brought with him 

 a small snow-ball, and the agreeable intelligence that we should find 

 abundance of snow on the top of the mountain, provided we reached 

 it next day ; for he told us it was melting fast. He had travelled for 

 more than four hours and a half before he reached the snow, and had 

 been an hour and a half returning down hill, on a run. The point 

 where he met the snow appeared to him to be about equidistant from 

 our present camp and the summit of the mountain. 



I now felt that the troubles of my scientific operations were begin- 

 ning, for I found that one of the iron cross-bars of the lower part of the 



