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The account of the journey to Cape Isabella, to obtain one hundred and forty-four pounds of English meat, is drawn largely from the relations of Frederick, a participant, and of Brainard, the advance guard of the rescuers. The party, consisting of Rice, Frederick, Elison, and Lynn, left in a temperature of −9° (−22.8° C.) on November 2d, with a light sledge, a four-man sleeping-bag, a tent fly, rifle, cooking-lamp, and pot. They had a ration of eight ounces each of bread and meat, and five ounces of fuel alcohol. Rice was selected for the command, from his familiarity with the route to be travelled over. As the Arctic night had commenced a week before, darkness drove them to their bags on the ice, in Rice Strait, the first day out; but on the second they reached, tired and hungry, Eskimo Point, where they camped in our old quarters. The third day rough ice impeded their progress, and exhausted Lynn and Elison so that they camped before Cape Isabella was reached. On this day Elison and Lynn, in their great thirst, resorted, despite warnings, to eating snow, which proved so fatal to the former. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)