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corners and fragments of ship biscuit, a small quantity of coffee, 
tea, sugar, syrup, groats, salt meat, salt fish, a few pounds of 
pork, a couple of tin canisters of preserved vegetables, a little 
bad butter, &c. There was abundance of wood on board and 
on the land. Notwithstanding the defective equipment they 
went on bravely and hopefully with the preparations for winter¬ 
ing, gathered drift-wood in heaps on the beach, threw a tent of 
tobiesen’s winter house on bear island. 
(After a sketch by the Author;) 
sails oVer the vessel, threw up snow about its sides, covered the 
deck with the hides of the seals alid walruses that had been 
captured during summer, did what could be. done to bring 
about good ventilation on board, &c. A large number of 
bears came to the winter station at the commencement of 
the wintering, affording an abundant supply of fresh bears’ 
flesh. So long as this lasted, the health of the party was 
