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CHAPTER V. 
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Precautions for securing the Ships and Stores — for promoting Good Order, Cleanliness, 
Health, and Good-humour, among the Ships’ Companies — Establishment of a Theatre, 
and of the North Georgia Gazette — -Erection of an Observatory on Shore — Commence our 
Winter’s Amusements — State of the Temperature and various Meteorological Phenomena 
— Miscellaneous Occurrences to the close of the Year 1819 .... 101 
CHAPTER VI. 
First Appearance of Scurvy — The Aurora Borealis and other Meteorological Phenomena — 
Visits of the Wolves — Re-appearance of the Sun — Extreme low Temperature — Destruc- 
tion of the House on Shore by Fire — Severe Frost-bites occasioned by this Accident . 131 
CHAPTER VII. 
More temperate Weather — House re-built — Quantity of Ice collected on the Hecla’s lower 
Deck — Meteorological Phenomena — Conclusion of Theatrical Entertainments — Increased 
Sickness on board the Griper — Clothes first dried in the open Air — Remarkable Halos 
and Parhelia — Snow-Blindness — Cutting the Ice round the Ships, and other Occurrences 
to the Close of May . . . . . . . . .151 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Journey across Melville Island to the Northern Shore, and Return to the Ships by a different 
Route . . . . . . . . . . .181 
CHAPTER IX. 
Occurrences at Winter Harbour in the early Part of June — Gradual Dissolution of the Ice upon 
the Sea, and of the Snow upon the Land — Hunting Parties sent out to procure Game — 
Decease and Burial of William Scott — Equipment of the Ships completed — Temperate 
Weather during the Month of July — Breaking up of the Ice near the Ships — Move to the 
lower Part of the Harbour — Separation of the Ice at the Entrance — Prepare to sail — 
Abstract of Observations made in Winter Harbour ..... 206 
CHAPTER X. 
Leave Winter Harbour — Flattering appearance of the Sea to the Westward — Stopped by the 
Ice near Cape Hay — Further Progress to the Longitude of 113° 48' 22".5, being the 
Westernmost Meridian hitherto reached in the Polar Sea, to the North of America — Banks's 
Land Discovered — Increased extent and dimensions of the Ice — Return to the East- 
ward, to endeavour to penetrate the Ice to the Southward — Discovery of several Islands — 
Re-enter Barrow's Strait, and survey its South Coast — Pass through Sir James Lan- 
caster’s Sound, on our Return to England ...... 228 
