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The Esquimaux not only kind but make others, so [[encircled]] 591 [[/encircled]] A seal was shot to-day (Aug 14/31) it was a sport [[strikethrough]] not [[/strikethrough]] in wh. we had hitherto found no success. [[encircled]] 592 [[/encircled]] 25 shot another seal [[encircled]] 594 [[/encircled]] Duck of different kinds shot (do). Living menagerie on board (do) The four years made John Ross hate even the sight of snow [[encircled]] 601 [[/encircled]] [[encircled]] 2 & 3 [[/encircled]] Why is it that [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] person from India (in Eng) suffers less the 1st winter than the 2nd? [[encircled]] 613 [[/encircled]] 1st real case scurvy [[encircled]] 614 [[/encircled]] Remarks of Ross on [[end page]] [[start page]] scurvy - entirely cut off from one of the best known ^[[& most effective]] means of prevention & remedy vegetable food. Our men could not learn the use of fish oil wh. I believed to be one of the antiscurbitics provided by nature for the inhabitants of these frozen regions. [[encircled]] 615 [[/encircled]] We had salt meat, [[?]] - but occasional recourse to fish preserved meat, vinegar, sugar & lemon juice helped us thru. [[encircled]] 615 [[/encircled]] Remarks for future navigators The Southern Whalers assert that as a want is one of the efficient causes of scurvy so they find a remedy in supplying this to their crews without stint. In this matter we [[?imitate]]