ys' provisions.

They reached the eastern end of Bear Lake, at the influx of Dease's
river, on the 18th, and remained there until the evening of the 24th,
before the boats arrived to convey them to Fort Franklin.

The person to whom the boats were entrusted, and who was sent off to
Fort Franklin on the 6th of August, did not arrive on the latest day
appointed for his appearance (the 20th), from a belief that Dr.
Richardson's party would never return, and that he should make a
needless voyage: and after the 20th Dr. Richardson was obliged to
distribute his party into hunting and fishing groups, to procure
subsistence. Dr. Richardson collected his party for embarkation on the
evening of the 28th; and they reached the fort, after an absence from
it of seventy-one days, the whole party in perfect health.

[3] In the facetious poem entitled _May Fair_, in speaking of Captain
Parry's undertaking, and predicting its probable want of success,
the following prophetic couplet appears:--

"Quarter-day you'll have him back,
With his volume in his pack;"

And lo! on quarter-day, the 29th of September, did Captain Parry
make his appearance at the Admiralty!!

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