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. iii he IVastern Arctic Sea. 9" tliis season, all circumstances considered, is really more titan ought to be expected. In the mean time I return to my Journal, to give you some notices of our proceedings during the month just elapsed. For some months past the boatswain’s mate of the Hecla, Wil liam Scott, had been much indisposed, with scurvy and bowel complaint, attended by a general debility of mind as well as of body. On the 27th June he became delirious, and could with difficulty be kept in bed. His malady resisting every antidote which medical aid and humane attention could furnish, early in the morning of Friday, the 30th June, Captain Parry was inform ed that he was not expected to live out the day ; but before he could dress to see the unfortunate man he had breathed his last. Scott’s disorder bearing appearances unconnected with any cir cumstances of the expedition, the body was opened, and the result showed that, perhaps, in no country or climate could his life have been long preserved. On Sunday the 2d of last month, after divine service in the forenoon, the body was carried on shore, and interred on a level spot of ground at a proper distance back from the beach. The ceremony was conducted with every solemnity required by the occasion, and which our circumstances would permit. The ensigns and pendants of the ships were lowered to half-mast during the funeral procession, which was composed of every officer and man of both ships who could possibly be spared, walking to the grave two and two. A neat tomb-stone was afterwards placed at the head of the grave, facing westward, with a suitable inscription carved on it by Mr. Fisher, assistant-surgeon of the Hecla. The grave was also covered with stone, to prevent its being disturbed by wolves or other animals. In any circumstance the loss of Scott, a very quiet man and an excellent seaman, would have been sufficiently dis tressing to our little society ; but in our forlorn situation in a remote and desolate corner of the world, it was peculiarly affect ing. In action the seaman sees his comrades dropping on every side, without much apparent concern; for every instant the lot may be his own ; but to see a shipmate carried off by illness in his bed, and be committed to the earth instead of a watery grave, these events have on him a singular effect. Many land folks are deeply averse to the dissection of the dead, especially of their near relations. Among seamen this aversion is particularly strong; audit is an unquestionable proof of the excellent dis cipline of our expedition, and of the personal respect for the com mander entertained by the men, that their companion’s body was opened without the least complaint or representation on their part. VoYAGKS, Vol. Vs o