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Remarks. To understand my action in
the preceeding case one must be aware
of the state of things around me.

Out of 18 men, thirteen are
confined to their beds with disease, one
obliged to absent himself from the brig for
the daily hunt, two [of] one of whom is the
commander of the Expedition are obliged
to do all the work both domestic and
External, a remaining two in full health
and rigour are absent.

Now of these two one is Godfrey a
baffled mutineer and a deserter, one
against whom I have recorded reports for
theft, and repeated assaults against
both officers and messmates, the other
Hans a faithful servant, whose condition
whereabouts and personal safety are
entirely unknown. Hans left us on
Monday the 19th March, with sledge & dogs
on a journey often made in safety before
within a week. On the 2n of April,
fourteen days afterwards Godfrey
appears without Hans but with
his sledge dogs and walrus meat.

Again Godfrey is a man proved
to be capable of any villainy. He has
on board an associate and confederate
equally desperate, and there was a
time before I arrested it by a decided
step when among two others not here
to be named were suspected of a
wish to consult their own pleasure &
comfort among the Esquimaux lodges
at the expense of their duty to me &
their sick comrades. Now reviewing
conscientiously all these things and
combining them with the absence of
Hans and the late mutiny [whose?]

371

Remarks. To understand my action in
the preceeding case one must be aware
of the state of things around me.

Out of 18 men, thierteen are
confined to their beds with disease, one
obliged to absent himself from the brig for
the daily hunt, two [of] one of whom is the
commander of the Expedition are obliged
to do all the work both domestic and
External, a remaining two in full health
and [?] are absent.

Now of these two one is Godfrey a
baffled mutineer and a deserter, one
against whom I have recorded reports for
theft, and repeated assaults against
both officers and messmates, the other
Hans a faithful servant, whose condition
whereabouts and personal safety are
entirely unknown. Hans left us on
Monday the 19th March, with sledge & dogs
on a journey often made in safety before
within a week. On the 2n of April,
fourteen days afterwards Godfrey
appears without Hans but with
his sledge dogs and walrus meat.

Again Godfrey is a man proved
to be capable of any villainy. He has
on board an associate and confederate
equally desperate, and there was a
time before I arrested it by a decided
step [?] among two others not here
to be named were suspected of a
wish to consult their own pleasure &
comfort among the Esquimaux lodges
at the expense of their duty to me &
their sick comrades. Now [servicing?]
conscientiously all these things and
[continuing?] them with the absence of
Hans and the late mutiny [whose?]