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took the refreshment and pushed on towards the brig. Their 

 strength soon failed them again, and they began to lose their 

 self-control. Kane tried the experiment of a three minutes' 

 sleep, and, finding that it refreshed him, timed the men in their 

 turns. Doses of brandy, and, finally, the distant sight of the 

 brig, revived and encouraged them. The last mile was accom- 

 plished by instinct, as none of the men remembered it after- 

 wards : they staggered into the cabin delirious and muttering 

 with agony. 



Death now entered the devoted camp : Jefferson Baker died 

 of lockjaw on the 7th of April. A meeting with a party of 

 Esquimaux now enabled Kane to reinforce his dog-team, and 



WILD DOG TEAM. 



encouraged him to start, late in April, upon his grand sledge- 

 excursion to the north. It failed, however, completely. Kane 

 became delirious on the 5th of May, and fainted every time he 



