670 
LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
night in the cabin for tea, the crew regaling themselves with 
coffee made of peas. 
In the beginning of April, preparations were made for tra¬ 
velling : the first thing being done was, to get some of the bread 
casks up to the house, for the purpose of packing the bread, for, 
unfortunately, there was a great quantity of bad bread amongst 
the Fury’s stores. Each cask was emptied on a sail, and the 
cask burned out, and the picked bread put into it. Then all 
the provisions were collected, that were intended to be carried 
down to Batty Bay:—they consisted of 2500 lbs. of bread in 
casks, and 60 lbs. in a bag, 1400 lbs. of preserved meats, 520 
lbs. of sugar, 190 lbs. of cocoa, 50 lbs. of pea coffee, 4 cwt. or 
nearly half a ton of coals, 20 gallons of lime juice, independently 
of the weight of all the casks and other articles, all of which, 
upon a close calculation, amounted to seven tons, which had 
to be dragged down to Batty Bay, a distance of 32 miles, ovei 
hummocks of ice, and hills of snow. It was computed, that the 
above quantity would make fourteen sledge loads, but there 
were only thirteen working hands, sufficient only to man two 
sledges; so that it was found practicable only to take two 
sledges at a time, to the distance of about 8 miles, and then to 
return with the empty ones. On the following day, a similar 
trip was taken, it the weather permitted, thus making a dis¬ 
tance of 56 miles, which the men had to travel, and yet they 
could only say, that they were eight miles on their route. 
The chief part of the duty in April, May, and the beginning 
of June, w as the ^transportation of the provisions to Batty 
Bay. 
Considerable anxiety was felt as to the condition, in which 
the boats would be found at Batty Bay, as on them they de¬ 
pended for their deliverance from the inhospitable regions, in 
which they had existed for the last four years; and therefore it 
was thought advisable to send a party forward to the bay, to 
ascertain the condition of the boats, before the whole of the 
provisions were removed from Fury Beach. Accordingly, a 
party set out, and on their arrival at Batty Bay, they were 
rejoiced to find, that the boats themselves had not suffered ma- 
