CHAPTER XIX. 
PROGRESS OF THE PARTY — PROSTRATION — DALLAS BAY—DEATH 
OF SCHUBERT-THE BRIG IN MAY-PROGRESS OF SPRING — 
M^GARY’s RETURN-DR. HAYES’S PARTY — EQUIPMENT—SCHU- 
bert’s FUNERAL. 
“ It is now the 20th of May, and for the first time I 
am able, propped up by pillows and surrounded by sick 
messmates, to note the fact that we have failed again 
to force the passage to the north. 
“Godfrey and myself overtook the advance party 
under McGary two days after leaving the brig. Our 
dogs were in fair travelling condition, and, except 
snow-blindness, there seemed to be no drawback to 
our efficiency. In crossing Marshall Bay, we found 
the snow so accumulated in drifts, that, with all our 
efforts to pick out a track, we became involved: we 
could not force our sledges through. We were forced 
.to unload and carry forward the cargo on our backs, 
beating a path for the dogs to follow in. In this way 
we plodded on to the opposite headland, Cape Wil¬ 
liam Wood, where the waters of Mary Minturn River, 
which had delayed the freezing of the ifce, gave us a 
