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dashed to pieces at the bottom of this mountain—and 
have continued to this day unburied, for an example to 
others to take heed how they clamber too high, or how 
they come too near to the brink of this mountain.’” 
“March 31, Saturday.—This month, badly as its 
daily record reads, is upon review a cheering one. We 
have managed to get enough game to revive the worst 
of our scurvy patients, and have kept in regular move¬ 
ment the domestic wheel of shipboard. Our troubles 
have been greater than at any time before; perhaps I 
ought to say they are greatest as the month closes: but, 
whatever of misery Bonsall and Petersen and myself 
may have endured, it seems nearly certain now that at 
least four men will soon be able to relieve us. Brooks, 
McGary, Riley, and Thomas, have seen the crisis of 
their malady, and, if secured from relapse, will recover 
rapidly. Ohlsen also is better, but slow to regain his 
powers. But the rest of the crew are still down. 
“The game-season besides is drawing nearer; and, 
once able to shoot seal upon the ice, I have little fears 
for the recovery of the larger portion of our party. Per¬ 
haps I am too sanguine; for it is clear that those of us 
who have till now sustained the others are beginning 
to sink. Bonsall can barely walk in the morning, and 
his legs become stiller daily; Petersen gives way at the 
ankles; and I suffer much from the eruption, a torment¬ 
ing and anomalous symptom, which affects eight of our 
sick. It has many of the characteristics of exanthe¬ 
mata; but is singularly persistent, varied in its phases, 
and possibly in its result dangerous. 
