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The days have great beauty and our night
is enlivened by an unsurpassable moon.
This short season of alternating night and
day reminds me of home, but the
duration of the dark hours is so palpably
encroached on by the increasing daylight
that the home resemblance is very faint.
Already we read the thermometers by
the dawning at 5 o'clock and the
twilight extends with the same
brightness to 7. in the afternoon. The [turbid?]
sky to the northward holds until [blank]
and in [blank] days our now cherished
nighttime will be converted into twilight.
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Sunday
Mar 4.

To day, Sunday, we were unable to
supply the sick with food. Our small remnant
of deer was too tainted to be trusted
our bear legs stripped even of their marrow.
Thus we find ourselves brought up.
I have spent the day playing cook and
made up sundry entremets of meat biscuit
beans and apples, but sick men will have a [?] to [?]
[grovel?] and I fear that my artistic powers
were under rated.

Every thing by word and
manner that my mind suggests to
me I do to cheer up my invalids,
but I am not going to be caught in a
trap, to procrastinate decisive action
for our relief until every man is disabled
and our party irremediably doomed.
I dare not leave them to go out toward the [?]. [Well,?] if
Hans does not bring in a rabbit
tomorrow, I must spare him to go alone after the Esquimaux at [blank] Bay
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[Cold as it is he must start
alone, on an attempt the fifth to
reach the Leiper Bay settlements.

My eye has been long fixed upon
this journey, and I have been [?]
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