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GENERAL RESULTS. 
I return to my journal. 
“The spar-deck—or, as we call it from its wooden 
covering, the ‘House’—is steaming with the buffalo- 
robes, tents, boots, socks, and heterogeneous costum- 
ings of our returned parties. We have ample work 
in repairing these and restoring the disturbed order 
of our domestic life. The men feel the effects of their 
journey, but are very content in their comfortable 
quarters. A pack of cards, grog at dinner, and the 
promise of a three days’ holiday, have made the decks 
happy with idleness and laughter.” 
I give the general results of the party; referring 
to the Appendix for the detailed account of Messrs. 
McGary and Bonsall. 
They left the brig, as may be remembered, on the 
20th of September, and they reached Cape Kussell on 
the 25th. Near this spot I had, in my former jour¬ 
ney of reconnoissance, established a cairn; and here, 
as by previously-concerted arrangement, they left their 
first cache of pemmican, together with some bread and 
alcohol for fuel. 
On the 28 th, after crossing a large bay, they met a 
low cape about thirty miles to the northeast of the 
first depot. Here they made a second cache of a hun¬ 
dred and ten pounds of beef and pemmican, and about 
thirty of a mixture of pemmican and Indian meal, with 
a bag of bread. 
The day being too foggy for sextant observations for 
position, or even for a reliable view of the landmarks, 
they built a substantial caini, and buried the pro- 
