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ohlsek’s. death. 
us so much refreshed that I was able to call their ser¬ 
vices again into requisition. We carried one entire 
load to the main which forms the northeast headland 
of Hartstene Bay, and, the Esquimaux assisting us, 
deposited it safely on the inner side. 
I was with the advance boat, trying to force a Avay 
through the channel, when the report came to me from 
Dr. Hayes that Ohlsen was no more. He had shown, 
a short half-hour before, some signs of revival, and 
Petersen had gone out to kill a few birds, in the hope 
of possibly sustaining him by a concentrated soup. 
But it was in vain: the poor fellow flushed up only to 
die a few minutes after. 
We had no time to mourn the loss of our comrade, 
a tried and courageous man, who met his death in the 
gallant discharge of duty. It cast a gloom over the 
whole party; but the exigencies of the moment were 
upon us, and we knew not whose turn would come 
next, or how soon we might all of us follow him 
together. 
I had carefully concealed Mr. Ohlsen’s sickness from 
the Esquimaux, with every thing else that could inti¬ 
mate our weakness; for, without reflecting at all upon 
their fidelity, 1 felt that with them, as Avith the rest of 
the Avorld, pity Avas a less active provocative to good 
deeds than the deference Avliich is exacted by poAver. 
I had therefore represented our abandonment of the 
brig as merely the absence of a general hunting-party 
to the Far South, and I Avas Avilling uoav to keep up 
the impression. I leave to moralists the discussion of 
