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to methods between Captain Bartlett and the surgeon, Dr. Mackay, it was
decided that the dissenters should be allowed to separate from the main
party, Hadley goes on:]

There was great excitement in camp that evening. The
Doctor's party were planning to start out on their own account. The next
day they got ready and packed their sled with fifty days' rations for four
men. The Captain told them they could have anything they wanted (except
dogs - these would all remian with the main party).

I think it was the third morning after this that the Cap-
tain sent two or three sleds with loads of provisions to Herald Island with
the intention to join the Mate's party. It was About the 10th of February
the sleds returned with the news that when they arrived at Herald Island
they found the ice had done considerable crushing. They could discover no
sign of the Mate's party. They seemed to have disappeared off the face of
the earth. The search party camped about three miles from Herald Island
for they could not get ashore because of water and slush ice. Next day
they hunted for signs of the Mate's party but found none. During the next
night the ice commenced working. The piece they were camped on was a small,
solid cake, but the next morning at daylight they found they were adrift with
water all around them, going to the west at a mile or two an hour. (Some
similar things had probably happened to the Mate's party.) After drifting
a few hours, their cake touched the peak and they were able to get off.
One of their sleds collapsed, so they met the Doctor's party and found them
in pretty bad shape. The sailor, Morris, had blood poisoning in one of his
hands and poor Beuchat had frozen both feet from the ankles down and both
hands from the wrists solid. He couldn't get his boots and stockings on

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