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summer and the land ice I have found
to be here as perennial as the glacier.

[Margin] Monday
June 19

After a walk of 13 hours Mesrs. H and
O sighted from an altitude of 230 feet
as far south as the Esquimaux States but
without finding the open water. Mr. Mc
Seary was mstaken in his "report" of the
sea having reached above the [huts?]. I pre=
sume that the water is open at Fog Inlet
and wonder that the S. W. Swells have not
more advanced it. The floe is reported as
rotten and covered with water pools. This
last is a good indication.

Our cabin was scrubbed and ventilated - the
thick cementations of winter ice broken from
the lockers and things prepared for our
return. We are leading now a camp life
living from hand to mouth on our guns.
Hans being away we have shot a seal &
our stock of meat is nearly exhausted.
The deer after an allowane of 1/2 lb per
man per diem gave out yesterday. Although
nearly broken by scurvy I must try my hand
and take to the rifle again.

[Margin] Tuesday
June 20

This morning to my great surprise Petersen
brought me quite a handful of the scurvy grass
(Cochlearia [space left blank by EKK]) in my fall list of
the stinted flora of this spot it had
quite escaped my notice. I felt grateful
to him for his kindness and without the
affectation of offering it to any one else
eat it at once. Each plant stood about
one inch high - the miniature
expanding strength out a little radius of hardly
one inch more. Yet dwarfted as it was
the fructifying process was nearly perfected