CHAPTER XXII. 
MR. BONSAI.I.’S RETURN — Ills STORY — THE BEAR IN CAMP — HIS 
FATE — BEARS AT SPORT-THE THAWS. 
“June 27, Tuesday.—McGary and Bonsall are back 
with Hickey and Riley. They arrived last evening: 
all well, except that the snow has affected their eye¬ 
sight badly, owing to the scorbutic condition of their 
systems. Mr. McGary is entirely blind, and I fear will 
be found slow to cure. They have done admirably. 
They bring back a continued series of observations, 
perfectly well kept up, for the further authentication 
of our survey. They had a good chronometer, arti¬ 
ficial horizon, and sextant, and their results correspond 
entirely with those of Mr. Sontag and myself. They 
are connected too with the station at Chimney Rock, 
Cape Thackeray, which we have established by theo¬ 
dolite. I may be satisfied now with our projection of 
the Greenland coast. The different localities to the 
south have been referred to the position of our winter 
