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THE DARKNESS. 
than eight degrees below the horizon. This depression, 
which was Parry’s lowest, enabled him by turning the 
paper toward the south to read diamond type. We are 
looking forward to this more penumbral darkness as an 
era. It has now been lifty-two days since we could read 
such type, even after climbing the dreary hills. One 
hundred and twenty-four days with the sun below the 
A SKETCH. 
horizon! One hundred and forty before he reaches the 
l’ocky shadowing of our brig! 
“I found an overlooked godsend this morning,—a 
bear’s head, put away for a specimen, but completely 
frozen. There is no inconsiderable quantity of meat 
adhering to it, and I serve it out raw to Brooks, Wilson, 
and Riley. 
“ I do not know that my journal anywhere mentions 
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