934	JEANNETTE INQUIRY.
night called all hands at six and got breakfast. Barometer 300. At eight slipped from ice and tried on the starboard tack. Grounded at a few hundred yards. Tried port tack. Grounded again. Struggled back to ice by eleven. Made raft. Got dinner. Decided to unload and wade ashore. At one loaded raft with tents, cooking stoves, and boat-box, and though it was buoyed with two breakers it took the ground. First load started at 2.45-everybody except doctor, Boyd, Ericksen, and myself. Water knee-deep; land one and one-half miles off. Re-turned from first load at 4.15. Hauled boat farther inshore. Started second load (Collins and Sam remained behind disabled) 4.45. Second load landed and men back by 6.45. Hauled boat another drag inshore, then say one-eighth of a mile distant. Got her in to one-half of a mile distant. Then all got out and carried load ashore. I landed at eight P. ii. Dark and snow-storm, but Collins had a good fire going. Sent everybody except doctor, Collins, Sam, Boyd, Ericksen, and self back for one more load, and at 10.20 had landed everything except boat, oars, mast, sled, and breakers. Got suppertwo pounds pig's feet additional. Negus chronometer stopped at about eleven P. M., only eight hours after winding. Pitched camp. No watch set. Chronometer reads 7 h. 34m. 6s.
September 18th, Sunday.Called all hands at eleven A. M. Got break-fast of tea and pemmican as soon as we could, and then the doctor commenced overhauling us generally. Prepared to make a large fire to dry us. The ground under us has been so wet all night that we are soaking wet as a rule. Occasionally our underclothes are only wet in patches, but as a rule we are wet, bags, clothes, and all.
Sent out afternoon to the boat, and brought in the alcohol, all clothing, boat-box, etc., and there was left nothing but the oars, mast, half boat cover, water breaker, etc. Had fires going all the time to dry our clothes. We must look our situation in the face and prepare to walk to a settlement.
For dinner had seven pounds of ham instead of pemmican, and for supper soup made from two ptarmigan and two pounds pig's feet with two pounds ham instead of pemmican. Snow, hail, and sleet, and strong wind. Piped down at nine. No watch set. Divine service at five P. M.	-
September 19th, 11fonday.Called all hands at 6.30. Breakfast of tea and five pounds of tongue. This exhausts our canned meats, and now we have about three and a half days' rations, pemmican and plenty of tea.
I ordered preparations to be made for leaving this place after dinner, and as a beginning all sleeping-bags are to be left behind. Foot-nips may be made of them. List of things carried and left behind will be written in here :
LEFT BEHIND.
1 sextant.	Medical box, viz.-
1 artificial horizon.	10 rolls bandages.
Mercury.	2 oz. opium.
1 almanac, 1881.	+ lb. cathartic pills.
1 useful table.	2 elastic trusses (double).
1 Chanveuet's Lunar and Eg. Alt.	1 case urinary instruments.
1 comparing watch.	1 small operating case (partial).
1 cooking stove.	1 roll lint.
14 mess pans.	1 lb. cotton batting.
1 cooking pot.	1 case sticking plaster.
1 cooking pan.	1 clinical thermometer.
1 box rock specimens.	Small tray empty vials.