CHAPTER XX. 
NEW STATIONS—THE ICE-MARSHES—POINT SECURITY—OOPEGSOAK- 
CATCHING AUKS—ANINGNAII—NESSARK. 
I found that Mr. Brooks had succeeded in getting 
his boat and sledges as far as the floe off Bedevilled 
Reach. I stopped only long enough to point out to 
him an outside track, where I had found the ice quite 
smooth and free from snow, and pressed my dogs for 
the hut. I noticed to 
my great joy, too, that 
the health of his party 
seemed to he improving 
under our raw-meat spe¬ 
cific, and could not find 
fault with the extrava¬ 
gant use they were 
making of it. 
The invalids at the 
sick-station were not as well as I could have wished: 
but I had only time to renew their stock of provision 
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THE FLOE. 
