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COMPLEMENT. 
5. The co-operation of the Esquimaux; settlements 
of these people having been found as high as Whale 
Sound, and probably extending still farther along the 
coast. 
We were to pass up Baffin s Bay therefore to its 
most northern attainable point; and thence, pressing 
on toward the Pole as far as boats or sledges could 
carry us, examine the coast-lines for vestiges of the 
lost party. 
All hands counted, we were seventeen at the time 
of sailing. Another joined us a few days afterward; 
so that the party under my command, as it reached 
the coast of Greenland, consisted of 
Henry Brooks, First Officer. Isaac I. Hayes, M.D., Surgeon. 
John Wall Wilson, 
James McGary, 
George Riley, 
William Morton, 
Christian Oiilsen, 
Henry Goodfellow, 
August Sontag, Astronomer. 
Amos Bonsall, 
George Stephenson, 
George Whipple, 
William Godfrey. 
John Blake, 
Jefferson Baker, 
Peter Schubert, 
Thomas Hickey. 
Two of these, Brooks and Morton, had been my asso¬ 
ciates in the first expedition; gallant and trustworthy 
men, both of them, as ever shared the fortunes or 
claimed the gratitude of a commander. 
The Advance had been thoroughly tried in many 
encounters with the Arctic ice. She was carefully 
