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very few minutes we proved our united wisdom by a 
feast on bis quartered remains. 
“ It was a glorious meal, such as the compensations 
of Providence reserve for starving men alone. We 
ate, forgetful of the past, and almost heedless of the 
morrow; cleared away the offal wearily: and now, at 
10 p. M., all hands have turned in to sleep, leaving to 
their commanding officer the solitary honor of an eight 
hours’ vigil. 
“ This deer was among the largest of all the northern 
specimens I have seen. He measured five feet one 
inch in girth, and six feet two inches in length, and 
stood as large as a two joars’ heifer. We estimated his 
weight at three hundred pounds gross, or one hundred 
and eighty net. The head had a more than usually 
cumbrous character, and a long waving tuft of white 
hair, that depended from the throat, gave an appear¬ 
ance of excessive weight to the front view. 
“The reindeer is in no respect a graceful animal. 
There is an apparent want of proportion between his 
cumbrous shoulders and light haunch, which is un¬ 
gainly even in his rapid movements. But he makes 
up for all his defects of form when he presents himself 
as an article of diet. 
“February 24, Saturday.—A bitter disappointment 
met us at our evening meal. The flesh of our deer 
was nearly uneatable from putrefaction; the liver and 
intestines, from which I had expected so much, utterly 
so. The rapidity of such a change, in a temperature 
so low as minus 35°, seems curious; but the Green- 
