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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