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instructions to “ call all hands to lay aft and take two reefs in the 
stove-pipe.” As to all hands being now temporarily crazy I had no 
further doubts; for I would respectfully submit that your mind might 
perhaps have been at this moment a little wandering. 
At this time the frost-bitten patients are all doing well. They have 
rallied as well as can be expected in the short time after so great 
prostration. No prognosis of the cases can, however, be ventured upon 
safely. Pierre will probably lose part of one of his feet. Baker, part 
of one, or perhaps both. Messrs. Wilson and Brooks are in the same 
condition, being frozen above the phalangeal joints. 
Mr. Ohlsen has a frost-bite on one of his toes, but it will prove only 
a flesh-wound. Mr. Petersen’s symptoms grow more unpleasant. Mr. 
Sontag has an acute attack of scurvy, with pericarditis. Of the ori¬ 
ginal party of eight, Thomas Hickey alone remains well and sound. 
The remainder of the ship’s company are all in a very reduced con¬ 
dition. Symptoms of scurvy are visible in every one, and the severe 
exposure of this trying journey has favored its development. Mr. 
Bonsall, Mr. Morton, William Godfrey, J. Blake, and Hans Hendrick, 
are those least affected and most able for duty. 
I think, however, that there is every reason to hope for a speedy 
restoration to perfect health of the major part of the ship’s company. 
Allow me to express a hope also that you may soon be enabled under 
Providence to again take the field for the further conduct of your 
explorations. 
Respectfully submitted, your obedient servant, 
1.1. Hayes, Surgeon to the Expedition. 
Brio Advance, Rensselaer Harbor, April 6, 1854.* 
* Jefferson Temple Baker and Peter Schubert, affected as by the above roport, died 
on the 7th of April and 22d of May. 
I. I. Hayes. 
