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CHAPTER XVIII. 
A N EXPLORATION-EQUIPMENT-OUTFIT-DEPARTURE-RESULTS— 
FEATURES OF COAST-ARCHITECTURAL ROCKS — THREE BROTHER 
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turrets — tennyson’s monument — the great glacier of 
HUMBOLDT. 
The month of April was about to close, and the 
short season available for Arctic search was upon us. 
The condition of things on board the brig was not 
such as I could have wished for; but there was 
nothing to exact my presence, and it seemed to me 
clear that the time had come for pressing on the work 
of the expedition. The arrangements for our renewed 
exploration had not been intermitted, and were soon 
complete. I leave to my journal its own story. 
“April 25, Tuesday.—A journey on the carpet; and 
the crew busy with the little details of their outfit: 
the officers the same. 
“I have made a log-line for sledge-travel, with a 
contrivance for fastening it to the ice and liberating it 
at pleasure. It will give me my dead reckoning quite 
as well as on the water. I have a team now of seven 
dogs, four that I bought of the Esquimaux, and three 
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