. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land [microform] . Scientific expeditions; Scientific expeditions. i 480 TIIK LADY PKANKr,I\ BAY K\'PF<:iHT[() Whisler repoits having dctectci! tlie doctor in llic ad of purloining brtail (roni Klison's rations. The doctor sleeps his helpless patieiU and retains the latter's provisions in his charge. Thursday, 'yiiiiiiary 17, 1884.—C'alni and cloudy weather; temperature, — | —^^; (.'. |. Cross is failing rapidlv. He resuniecl his work this morning, but was soon com|ielled to aba
. Report on the proceedings of the United States expedition to Lady Franklin Bay, Grinnell Land [microform] . Scientific expeditions; Scientific expeditions. i 480 TIIK LADY PKANKr,I\ BAY K\'PF<:iHT[() Whisler repoits having dctectci! tlie doctor in llic ad of purloining brtail (roni Klison's rations. The doctor sleeps his helpless patieiU and retains the latter's provisions in his charge. Thursday, 'yiiiiiiary 17, 1884.—C'alni and cloudy weather; temperature, — | —^^; (.'. |. Cross is failing rapidlv. He resuniecl his work this morning, but was soon com|ielled to abandon it from extreme weakness. Later he was assigned t^^ .a single sleeping-bag and placed where the faithful Hiedcrbick could attend to his wants. He appeared to be delirious and talked incoherently of his luotiier, of his birthday (whi(h occurs next Sun»lay, when he will be forty years of age), and of the returning sun. Jens is of the opinion that the sound is broken, and that a considerable water s[tace exists in the axis of the channel. The ominous water-clouds alone will denote this state of things to the observer. Lieutenant Cireely has named February 3 as the day on which Rice and Jens w ill brave the elements by beginning their hazardous journey to Littleton Island in ipiest of assistance. The reduction in the (juantily of drink issued at meals is not .so great a deprivation as we hail imagined it would be. I issued the weeklj' allowance of seal meat. This is always a very disagreeable task owing to the frozen and Hintdike state of these animals after having been exposed for so long a time in the cold storehouse. Friday, yiviiuiry 18, 1884.—The weather is clear and calm ; the thermometer indicated a temperature "*^ ~39-° I —39'4° ^'l' ''"' ^'^ ''!•-' mercury was fro/en and our spirit thermometer lost, we ha'.e no means of just how cold it has been to-day. The returning light is ([uite well marked, particularly on the tlistant point
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