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“Returned, and reached the whaleboats at five 
o’clock, Saturday morning. All hands tired, turned 
in. Riley’s eyes well. 
“May 26, Saturday.—Strong wind, with snow, during 
night. Captain Kane came from south at half-past 
three o’clock with the dog-team, bringing a supply of 
walrus-beef, with Metek and sledge.” 
Once more leaving the party on the floe, Morton 
and myself, with Metek and his sledge in company, re¬ 
visited the brig, and set ourselves to work baking- 
bread. We had both of us ample experience in this 
branch of the culinary art, and I could gain some 
credit, perhaps, with a portion of my readers, by teach¬ 
ing them how bread may be raised in three hours 
without salt, saleratus, or shortening. But it is not the 
office of this book to deal in occult mysteries. The 
thing can be done, and we did it: sat verbam. The brig 
was dreary enough, and Metek was glad to bid it good¬ 
bye, with one hundred and fifty pounds on his dog- 
sledge, consigned to Mr. Brooks. But he carried be¬ 
sides a letter, safely trusted to his inspection, which 
directed that he should be sent back forthwith for 
another load. It was something like a breach of faith, 
perhaps, but his services were indispensable, and his 
dogs still more so. lie returned, of course, for there 
was no escaping us; his village lay in the opposite 
direction, and he could not deviate from the track after 
once setting out. In the mean time we had cooked 
about a hundred pounds of flour pudding, and tried out 
