. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. grounds, but the ice must have scaredthem. They were flying southward. June 25, Sunday.—Walked on shore and watchedthe changes: andromeda in flower, poppy and ranun-culus the same: saw two snipe and some tern. Mr. Ohlsen returned from a walk with Mr. Peter-sen. They saw reindeer, and brought back a noblespecimen of the king duck. It was a solitary male,resplendent with the orange, black, and green of hishead and neck. Stephenson is better; and I think that a markedimprovement, although a slow
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. grounds, but the ice must have scaredthem. They were flying southward. June 25, Sunday.—Walked on shore and watchedthe changes: andromeda in flower, poppy and ranun-culus the same: saw two snipe and some tern. Mr. Ohlsen returned from a walk with Mr. Peter-sen. They saw reindeer, and brought back a noblespecimen of the king duck. It was a solitary male,resplendent with the orange, black, and green of hishead and neck. Stephenson is better; and I think that a markedimprovement, although a slow one, shows itself in allof us. I work the men lightly, and allow plenty ofl3asking in the sun. In the afternoon we walk onshore, to eat such succulent plants as we can find amid THE PLANTS. 271 the snow. Tlio pyrola I have not found, nor the coch-learia, save in one spot, and then dwarfed. But wehave the lychnis, the young sorrel, the andromeda, thedraba, and the willow-bark; this last an excellenttonic, and, in common with all the Arctic vegetableastringents, I think, powerfully
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