NEW PARTIES. 
257 
Officers. 
Mr. Brooks. 
Mr. Wilson. 
Mr. Sontag. 
Mr. Bonsall...,... 
Mr. Petersen.. 
Mr. Goodfellow. 
Mr. Ofilsen. 
Mr. McGary. 
Unhealed stump, 
do. 
Down with scurvy 
,Scurvy knee, hut mending. 
.General scurvy. 
.Scurvy. 
Well. 
Well 
Crete. 
William Morton. Nearly recovered. 
Tiiomas Hickey. ...Well. 
George Whipple. Scurvy. 
John Blake. Scurvy. 
IIans Cristian. Well. 
George Riley. Sound. 
George Stephenson .Scurvy from last journey. 
William Godfrey .Snow-blind. 
“June 3, Saturday.—McGary, Bonsall, Hickey, and 
Riley were detailed for the first section of the new 
parties: they will be accompanied by Morton, who has 
orders to keep himself as fresh as possible, so as to 
enter on his own line of search to the greatest possible 
advantage. I keep IIans a while to recruit the dogs, 
and do the hunting and locomotion generally for the 
rest of us; but I shall soon let him follow, unless things 
grow so much worse on board as to make it impossible 
“They start light, with a large tliirteen-feet sledge, 
arranged with broad runners on account of the snow, 
and are to pursue my own last track, feeding at the 
caches which I deposited, and aiming directly for the 
glacier-barrier on the Greenland side. Here, sustained 
Vol. I. — 17 
