APPENDIX NO. Y. 
There was therefore some difficulty in getting force enough to attend 
to the sick, and it was with a little delay that they were carried to the 
upper deck, where they were properly allowed to remain some time 
before taking them into the warm air of the cabin. 
Having placed them in their bunks, that had previously been fitted 
up with as much care as possible, dressed their wounds, and attended 
to their present wants, my attention was directed to the remainder of 
the party. I found they had rolled into their bunks “booted and 
spurred” just as they had come in from the ice, and were all now fast 
locked in a heavy sleep, from which it seemed impossible to awake 
them; and, indeed, I made no effort. With them, as with the wounded, 
what they most needed was rest and quiet. 
Reaction soon commenced. What had before assumed only the 
form of the simplest mental aberration now broke out iu raving delirium, 
and for two days the ship presented all the appearances of a mad-house. 
Not an individual of the party escaped, although some were much more 
seriously affected than others. Many of them seemed to think them¬ 
selves out ou the ice perishing with cold, and when they at last awoke 
most of them had not the least remembrance of what had occurred 
during the last twenty hours of the journey. Except small doses of 
morphine, it seemed impolitic to do any thing for them at the first out¬ 
set of their wild raving. The excessive sleepiness had completely 
overpowered them, and they would only partially arouse at intervals, 
and give vent to an imploring cry for aid or an exhortation to hurry on. 
At last, after twenty-four hours, they began one by one to awake 
and ask for food. They were in this state for forty-eight hours; and 
Mr. Ohlsen, who had been eighty hours constantly exposed, and had 
travelled not less than one hundred and twenty miles, was unconscious 
of what was taking place for the greater part of two and a half days 
lie would ask for food frequently, eat with great voraciousness, and 
again fall back into a torpid sleep, seeming to recognise while awake 
nothing but the meal which he was eating. His brain-symptoms 
were accompanied by strabismus. During his sleep his mind ran con¬ 
tinually upon the tent on the ice, and he seemed to think himself 
pushing forward, guiding the party to it; conscious still, seemingly, of 
being the only one who knew whore it was. 
You were the last one affected, and among the first to recover. 
After seeing that the sick were comfortably cared for, you laid down 
in your cot, and I began to congratulate myself that you had escaped; 
but after two or three hours I heard you suddenly cry out, “ Halloo on 
dock there!” On going aft to ascertain what was wanted, T received 
