. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. d walks with me on my ice-tramps; and, excepthunting, is excused from all other duty. He is reallyattached to mo, and as happy as a fat man oughtto be. November 21, Monday.—We have schemes innu-merable to cheat the monotonous solitude of our are getting up a fancy ball; and to-day the firstnumber of our Arctic newspaper, The Ice-Blink, cameout, with the motto, In tenebris servare fidem. Thearticles are by authors of every nautical grade: someof the best from the forecastle. I transfe
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. d walks with me on my ice-tramps; and, excepthunting, is excused from all other duty. He is reallyattached to mo, and as happy as a fat man oughtto be. November 21, Monday.—We have schemes innu-merable to cheat the monotonous solitude of our are getting up a fancy ball; and to-day the firstnumber of our Arctic newspaper, The Ice-Blink, cameout, with the motto, In tenebris servare fidem. Thearticles are by authors of every nautical grade: someof the best from the forecastle. I transfer a few ofthem to my Appendix; but the following sketch is afac-simile of the vignette of our little paper. November 22, Tuesday.—I offered a prize to-day ofa Guernsey shirt to the man who held out longest in afox-chase round the decks. The rule of the sportwas, that Fox was to run a given circuit betweengalley and capstan, all hands foUo^ving on his track;every four minutes a halt to be called to blow, and thefox making the longest run to take the prize; each of Vol. I.—10 146 FOX-CH A in tenebris servare fidem. the crew to run as fox in turn. William Godfrey sus-tained the chase for fourteen minutes, and wore off theshirt. November 27, Sunday.—-I sent out a volunteerparty some days ago with Mr. Bonsall, to see whetherthe Esquimaux have returned to the huts we sawempty at the cape. The thermometer was in theneighborhood of 40° below zero, and the day was toodark to read at noon. I was hardly surprised whenthey returned after camping one night upon the sledge broke down, and they were obliged toleave tents and every thing else behind them. Itmust have been very cold, for a bottle of Monongahelawhiskey of good stiff proof froze under Mr. Bonsallshead. ESQUIMAUX HUTS. 147 Morton went out on Friday to reclaim the thingsthey had left; and to-day at 1 he returned suc-cessful. He reached the wreck of the former party,making nine miles in three hours,—p
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