. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . early day of the fall, and had not beenentirely intermitted during our severest winter-trials. Recognizing the importance of acting directly uponthe mens minds, my first step now was to issue a gen-eral order appointing a certain day, the 17th of May,for setting out. Every man had twenty-four hoursgiven him to select and get ready his eight poundsof personal effects. After that, his time was to ceaseto be his own for any purpo
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . early day of the fall, and had not beenentirely intermitted during our severest winter-trials. Recognizing the importance of acting directly uponthe mens minds, my first step now was to issue a gen-eral order appointing a certain day, the 17th of May,for setting out. Every man had twenty-four hoursgiven him to select and get ready his eight poundsof personal effects. After that, his time was to ceaseto be his own for any purpose. I tried my best also to fix and diffuse impressionsthat we were 2:oino home. But in this I was not al-ways successful: I was displeased, indeed, with themoody indifference with which many went about thetasks to which I put them. The completeness of mypreparations I know had its influence ; but there weremany doubters. Some were convinced that my onlyol)joct was to move farther south, retaining the brig,however, as a home to retreat to. Others whisperedthat I wanted to transport the sick to the hunting-grounds and other resources of the lower settlements^ 604.
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