I cannot express the relief when the whole seventeen were safely picketed on the floe.

From the moment of getting on the snow they seemed to take a new lease of life, and I haven't a doubt they will pick up very rapidly.

It really is a triumph to have got them through safely and as well as they are.

Poor brutes, how they must have enjoyed their first roll, and how glad they must be to have freedom to scratch themselves! It is evident all have suffered from skin irritation--one can imagine the horror of suffering from such an ill for weeks without being able to get at the part that itched.

I note that now they are picketed together they administer kindly offices to each other; one sees them gnawing away at each other's flanks in most amicable and obliging manner.
Meares and the dogs were out early, and have been running to and fro most of the day with light loads.