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in the best of our ship -He started himself today
to the No. & [E?] beyond our hunting tent and
searched the low hills beyond the table land
This afternoon he returns thoroughly jaded
without having seen any traces of game -
Hans however says he saw yesterday two deer - “a doe and
a fawn the young one stood as high as a
[?] new born calf the body being as large as
“Little Whitey.” Alas, His rifle missed fire.

The remnant of one putrid reindeer
will give but [two] [three] more meals and we
have no fresh provision whatever on hand. Under
these circumstances I fear that [my best [Doe?] will be] I will have
to journey into the interior with the dogs in
search of new hunting grounds towards
the glacier. I dread the exposure of this
trip but Petersen is quite knocked up.
The sun at 10. a.m. rose sufficiently about a
cleft in the hill beyond Chancellor [Is?] to give
up 20 minutes of sunshine on our brig - The
first since Oct 23d 1854 - or one hundred
and thirty days!! My brave manly First, Brooks, was got upon deck [Astronomically we lose]
and cried to see this face. [the sun 15? days]

Copy note below

The sick are [all] about the same but more cheerful - Dr Hayes is
well of the amputated foot - the [little toe of
of the] other has not yet creatrized - [The]
[frost bite involved the joint -
making gun covers for Spring.

Satur Feb. 3d.

omit

Hard up for meat for the sick - our rein=
deer barely endurable will not last more
than two allowanced messrs - For the past
week the exertions of our hunters have failed
to produce any result - not a fox nor a rabbit
within an area whose radius must be at
least six miles - The Therm - seldom less than
forty - and at the moment -52^o.

I was mistaken we did not catch the rise of the
sun from the deck of our brig until