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Captain Buncombe, in writing of this relief expedition thirty years afterward, says:

“For severe hardships, continuous toil, constant exposure, bodily and mental suffering, I do not believe it has ever been surpassed by men who have risked their lives to rescue their fellow men from peril and death.”