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MAP SHOWING POINTS VISITED BY GREELY'S PARTY. 



Harbor and Cape Isabella by Sir George Nares in 

 1875, but found much damaged by lapse of time; 

 that cached by Beebe at Cape Sabine in 1882; and a 

 small amount saved from the wreck of the Proteus in 

 1883, and landed by Lieuts. Garlington and Colwell 

 on the beach where Greely's party was found camped. 

 When these provisions were consumed, the party was 

 forced to live upon boiled sealskin strips from their 



sealskin clothing, lichens, and shrimps preserved in 

 good weather, when they were strong enough to make 

 exertion. As thirteen hundred shrimps were required 

 to fill a gallon-measure, the labor was too exhausting 

 to depend upon them to sustain life entirely. The 

 channel between Cape Sabine and Littleton Island 

 did not close, on account of violent gales, all winter; 

 so that two hundred and forty rations at the latter 



