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stores, intending to replenish at the cache of Bonsall 
Point, and to lay in pemmican at McGary Island. 
Most of his cargo consists of bread, which we find it 
hard to dispense with in eating cooked food. It has a 
good effect in absorbing the fat of the pemmican, which 
is apt to disagree with the stomach.” 
THE FAITH. 
Godfrey and myself followed on the 27th, as I had 
intended. The journey was an arduous one to be un¬ 
dertaken, even under the most favoring circumstances 
and by unbroken men. It was to be the crowning 
expedition of the campaign, to attain the Ultima 
Thule of the Greenland shore, measure the waste that 
lay between it and the unknown West, and seek round 
