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I have one man now left, only one, to aid me in caring for the sick. To day is Sunday
[?] But we can have no Sundays except from labour
[?] the deer gives me no [discharge?] to hunt up the Esquimaux as I anticipated. His meat
proved upon trial unfit
for use; purging violently it causes diarrhea and unless
the cold completely arrest putrefaction it will
not last us three days. Hans and
Petersen are therefore both in [their field?]
again - the first at his traps the other out
upon the floe in search of bear tracks
- one bear would save us much misery.

On this day I first saw the sun.
I was standing on deck thinking over our
prospects when I saw a familiar berg which
had long been hid in shadow start sud=
=denly into Sunbirth. The berg I knew
right well, it stood between Charlotte
Wood Fiord and Little Willies Monu=
=ment, towards it I had one year and
one day ago travelled from Fern rock to
catch the sunshine - Then I had to climb
the hills in order to bathe in the brightness
but now albeit the sun was only 1^o above
the horizon, refraction had so elevated it.
that I saw the sheen stretching out
like an illuminated tongue in the trough
of the fiord. I could not or would
not resist the influence - it was a
Sunday act of worship - what better [?].
[what more revealed] - so I started off at an
even run and caught him. So I was
the first of our party this year and
last to think and pray in sunshine.

~ This is the third sun that I have
seen rise upon the darkness of an arctic
winter.

[Monday Feb. 26?]

William Godfrey, attempting to act as cook, fainted - John and
Morton and Stephensen unable to contribute
to any other little odds & ends. The whole
work of the [household?] - cooking included
done by self and Bonsall - Hans too