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McGeary, my relief, calls me. He has foraged
out some raw cabbage and spiced it up with
curry powder, our only remaining pepper.
This, with a piece of corn bread, no bad article
either, he calls me to share with him.
True to my old times habitudes I
hasten to the cabbage. Cold roast beef
Worcester sauce, a head of endive, and
a bottle, not one drop less, of [Presi?] Pans
ale. (I never drink any other). McGeary
"bring on de beans."!

Thurs. Jan. 18.
12 [Mid?]

Wind howling on deck, a noq.
gale a warm S.Easter directly from the
land. The mean temperature of this
wind is -20°. Warm as this may
seem our Experience has taught us to
prepare -40° with a calm to -10° with
a face opposing gale. Judging by
what little of weather wisdom I have
acquired I should if we only had daylight
start as soon as the present
wind subsided, believing that I would
have a three days interim between a
renewal of atmospheric disturbance and
the coming moon. It is however too
dark to encounter the squeezed ice and
I must wait.

[*Describe the survey &c. all
after date of return on p. 280.*]
My [plan] mode of travel I said yesterday,
was peculiar. I will imagine
myself explaining it to the tea table. [Bessie and Sallie
Butler]] my outfit and intentions.

Route Say the Route is from Brig Advance Rennsselaer
Harbour to Esquimaux Huts
of Leiper Bay.

1. From Brig to Ten mile Ravine 10. m.