. Explorations de l'Arctique : la deuxième expédition Grinnell à la recherche de Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. selectedby-les avant de partir, et à renoncer à des revendications en writingall sur moi et le reste à qui on resolvedto séjour par le navire. Ayant fait cela, j'ai demandé à theroll d'être appelé, et chaque homme de répondre pour lui-même. En conséquence, huit des dix-sept survivants mon vu partie résolu à s'en tenir à la Brigue. C'est juste thatI doivent enregistrer leurs noms. Ils étaient Henry Brooks, James McGary, J. W. Wilson, Henry Goodfellow, Wil-liam Morton, Christian, Olilscn HansCristian Thomas Hickey,. Je

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. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. selectedby them before setting out, and to renounce in writingall claims upon myself and the rest who were resolvedto stay by the vessel. Having done this, I directed theroll to be called, and each man to answer for himself. In the result, eight out of the seventeen survivors ofmy party resolved to stand by the brig. It is just thatI should record their names. They were Henry Brooks, James McGary, J. W. Wilson, Henry Goodfellow, Wil-liam Morton, Christian Olilscn, Thomas Hickey, HansCristian. I divided to the others their portion of our resourcesjustly and even liberally; and they left us on Monday, the 28th, with every appliance our narrow circum-stances could furnish to speed and guard them. Oneof them, George Riley, returned a few days afterward;but weary months went by before we saw the restagain. They carried with them a written assurance ofa brothers welcome should they be driven back; andthis assurance was redeemed when hard trials had pre-pared them to share again our fortunes.. CHAPTER XXYII. DISCIPLINE — BUILDING IGLOE TOSSUT — MOSSING — AFTER SEAL —ON THE YOUNG ICE — GOING TOO FAR — SEALS AT HOME IN THE WATER—IN SAFETY—DEATH OF TIGER. The party moved off with the elastic step of menconfident in their purpose, and were out of sight in afew hours. As we lost them among the hummocks, thestern realities of our condition pressed themselves uponus anew. The reduced numbers of our party, the help-lessness of many, the waning efficiency of all, the im-pending winter with its cold, dark night, our penuryof resources, the dreary sense of increased isolation, —these made the staple of our thoughts. For a time. SirJohn Franklin and his party, our daily topic throughso many months, gave place to the question of our ownfortunes, —how we were to escape, how to live. The summer had gone, the harvest was ended, and We did not care to finish the sentence. F

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