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March 31, weather clear and very cold. Thermometer at 6 A.M. 50° Fahr. Last evening M.J. Kelly asked permission to leave camp for two or three hours stating that he was going out for a walk. I retired at the usual hour, supposing he had returned as the man did not report him absent. At 7:30 A.M. we were all startled by a report that Mr Kelly was out on the ice so benumbed that he could not walk. Several of the men were immediately sent in pursuit and at 8 A.M. returned with him frozen stiff, and life almost extinct his senses and speech were gone. After rubbing the frost out of him which took half an hour consciousness returned, so that he was able to utter a few distinct sounds. By noon he had so far recovered that he was able to eat a little light food. He and Mr Young one of the sailors visited a Ichuctchu encampment about three miles from the station late last evening and in attempting to return to the station after dark lost their way, and wandered about over the tundra and ice all night, not knowing where they were.
  At day break they saw the ship, and found they were 8 miles S.E. of the Station. Mr Young succeeded in making camp in a half frozen condition but Mr Kellys strength failing him when within a mile of the Station he sat down to rest where he remained unconscious until picked up by the party in pursuit. His sufferings are all owing to his not wearing skin clothing, he has been warned time and again not to venture out without them. On the 7th of April Mr Dixon amputated