. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. 282 TAKING STOCK This good v/ork done, Tyson took stock. Successive expeditions had gathered togetlier nearly all tliat was on the ice when the Polaris drifted from them, and he found that their stores included two boats—one of which, however, was being broken up tor fuel—and one kayaik, a good suj ply of powder and -shot, eleven and a half
. The Arctic world: its plants, animals and natural phenomena [microform] : with a historical sketch of Arctic discovery down to the British Polar Expedition: 1875-76. British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; British Polar Expedition, 1875-76; Zoology; Zoologie. 282 TAKING STOCK This good v/ork done, Tyson took stock. Successive expeditions had gathered togetlier nearly all tliat was on the ice when the Polaris drifted from them, and he found that their stores included two boats—one of which, however, was being broken up tor fuel—and one kayaik, a good suj ply of powder and -shot, eleven and a half bags of bread, fourteen cans of pcraniioan, fourteen hams, ten dozer cans of meats and soups, one can of dried apples, and about twenty pounds of chocolate and sugar mixed. The pemmican cases werf' Irrge, each weighing forty-five pounds, the meats and soups were only one and two pound cans; the hams wore small; tlio dried-apple can counted for twenty-two pounds. Evidently, when divided among ninetoon'people, this supply could not last mar ^r weeks; and unless they reached the land, or. BrxOVERV OK THE BOAT BY CAPTAIN TTSON. could catch seals, starvation seemed their probable ultimate fate. The allowance was reduced to eleven ounces for each adult, and half that amount for the children,—rations painfully in- adequate to the proper support of the human frame in a Polar region and during an Arctic winter. On the 23rd of Octobei" they lost sight of the sun. At this time they were about eight or ten miles off-shore, and forty to fifty miles west of Northumberland Island, in lat. 77° 30' nearly. The Eskimos were on the watch for seals day after day, but without success. In truth, it is not easy to find the seal in winter, as they live principally under the ice, and can be seen cnly when it cracks. A v/arm-blooded animal, it cannot always remain beneath the frozen surface without breatiiing, and for this purpose they make air-holes through the ice and snow. These, however.
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