. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. cehe stopped, then threw up hisarms and hands, letting them fallslowly, droopingly. It needed no other language than what we saw in the motionsof this noble-hearted Innuit to tell us the terrible termination ofthis days search. Charley and Johnston turned to meet Captain B and my-self. Said they, Weve found him, and fear he is dead. Neitherpproached nearer than within half a dozen rods of him * In this idea, at the time, I was mistaken. The channel (lending to ChapeltInlet) is full five miles more to the southward of French Head. 1iV/c Chart.
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. cehe stopped, then threw up hisarms and hands, letting them fallslowly, droopingly. It needed no other language than what we saw in the motionsof this noble-hearted Innuit to tell us the terrible termination ofthis days search. Charley and Johnston turned to meet Captain B and my-self. Said they, Weve found him, and fear he is dead. Neitherpproached nearer than within half a dozen rods of him * In this idea, at the time, I was mistaken. The channel (lending to ChapeltInlet) is full five miles more to the southward of French Head. 1iV/c Chart. 238 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. whom we had so long sought. I flew as fast as my limbs wouldcarry me. A few moments found me grasping his arm. It wasas cold and rigid as the monuments of ice around us! Deep silence reigned for a while, as our little company of fourstood around the frozen body of John Brown. There, in themidst of the little circle, lay the form of him who was lost, butnow found. But oh, what a finding! Spare me from the likeagain!. IIIF. LOST FO0M>— DEAD. I had hoped to find the lost man—to have become a guide tohim—to have given hope to the despairing—to have saved humanlife ; and yet how thankful I felt that his fate had been truthful-ly determined. Evidently, from his tracks and the rigidness of his limbs, Johnhad died some time in the morning. From the iceberg for a dis-tance of two miles the footprints were quite fresh compared withthe tracks we had seen leading to it. It is quite likely that inthe covered shelving of the iceberg, whither he made his way sodesperately, he spent some of his time in resting—perhaps sleep-ing. It was almost a sleep of death, for his tracks indicated fee- THE GRAVE AND MONUMENT OF JOHN BROWN. 239 bleness—almost a blindness. Two rods before reaching the finalspot of his death, we found where he had fallen down as he walk-ed along, the disturbed snow showing that great effort had beenmade to regain his wal
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