Page 17

[header] 15

Kentucky rifle, split my ram rods, smashed my
powder flask and retorn his forlorn pantaloons.
He will neither mend them nor accept from
his messmates another pair. I would
give him a trunk load of clothes to save
my soup plate from his rags. Goodfellow
is much in my way. More perhaps when
on than off duty. I often wish him
back to the negative condition of gentleman
passenger.

Mosses beginning to be green!

[Margin] Sunday
June 24

Walked on shore - and watched the
slow changes. Andromeda in flower. Poppy
and Ranunculus the same. Saw two snipe
and some tern (S. Arctica). Returning to
the brig killed a long tailed duck.

Mr. Ohlsen returned from a walk
with Petersen. They saw reindeer and brought
back a noble specimen of the King Duck (anas
spectabilis). It was a solitary male resplendant
with the orange black and green of his head
and neck.)

Stephensen is better - and I think that a marked
improvement - although slow - shows itself in all of
us. I work the men lightly and allow penlty
of basking in the sun. We eat a whole set of
plants which are barely rescued from the snow
and which it requires all and more of botani=
cal accumen than I possess to select.

The Pyrola I have not found nor save in one spot
the cochlearia - and then so starved and dwarfed
as hardly to give a pinch to myself. But we
have on the other hand the young sorrel (Rumex
Digynus) - and the flowers of the andromeda
and willow bark. This latter an excellent tonic
and, I think, antiscorbutic.

Mr. Goodfellow shot a seal. He deserves
credit for his perseverance. Five days ago he