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INSTRUMENTS AND ARMS. 
the thwarts; the chronometers, carefully boxed and 
padded, placed in the stem-sheets of the Hope, in 
charge of Mr. Sontag. With them were such of the 
instruments as we could venture to transport. They 
consisted of two Gambey sextants, with artificial hori¬ 
zon, our transit-unifilar, and dip-instruments. Our 
glasses, with a few of the smaller field-instruments, we 
carried on our persons. Our fine theodolite we were 
forced to abandon. 
MEAT-G13CUIT CASE. 
Our powder and shot, upon which our lives depended, 
were carefully distributed in hags and tin canisters. 
The percussion-caps I took into my own possession, as 
more precious than gold. Mr. Bonsall had a general 
charge of the arms and ammunition. Places were 
arranged for the guns, and hunters appointed for each 
boat. Mr. Petersen took charge of the most important 
part of our field-equipage, our cooking-gear. Petersen 
was our best tinker. All the old stove-pipe, now none 
the better for two winters of Arctic fires, was called 
into requisition. Each boat was provided with two 
large iron cylinders, fourteen inches in diameter and 
eighteen high. Each of them held an iron saucer or 
lamp, in which we could place our melted pork-fat or 
