MEETING OF COMMANDER FROM THE EAST AND lieutenant PIM FROM THE WEST the first farat meeting of lieutenant bedford pink pim with the party from the investigator is thus thug described in a private letter from captain kellett C B dated her Maje ship resolute melville island april 1853 this is really a red letter day in our voyage and shall be kept as a holiday by our helm heirs and successors forever at nine this day our lookout look out man made the signal for a party coming in fro from m the westward all went to meet them and assist it them in A second party was then seen dr donville wu was the first person I 1 met I 1 cannot describe my feelings when he told me that captain was among the next party I 1 was not long in reaching him and giving him a hearty shaken shake n no purer were ever given by two men in this world worl d gurer clure looks well but is very hungry his description crip tion of pinks making the harbor of mercy would have been a fine subject for the pen pan of capt marryatt were he alive I 1 and his first lieutenant were walking on the floe seeing a person coming v very fast towards them they supposed he be was cn chased by a bear or had bad seen a bear walked towards him on getting onwards a hundred yards they con could id see a from is portions proportions oro that he was not one of them pim began to screech and throw up his bis hands his bis face was as black an aa my hat this brought the captain and lieutenant to a stand as aa they could not hear bear sufficiently to make out oat b bis at length pirn reached the party quite beside himself and stammered hammered tam out on MC lures lurea asking him who are you and where do you come from lieutenant pirn pim herald captain calta an kellett 11 this was the more inexplicable to as I 1 was the last person he be shook hands with in bearings Beh rings straits he at length found that this solitary stranger was a true en englishman 91 ishman an a angel I 1 of light he says he soon was seen men from the ship they had only one hatchway open aw and the crew arem way jammed there in their endeavor to get up the WA sick jumped out of their hammocks and the crew forgot their despondency in fact all was changed on board the investigator mcclure had thirty men man and three officers fully prepared to leave for the depot at point spencer what a disappointment it would have been to go there and find the miserable yacht mary with four or five casks of provisions instead of a fine large depot another party of seven men were to have gone by mckenzie with a request to the admiralty to send out a ship to meet at point leopold in 1854 the thirty men are on their way over to me now I 1 shall if possible send them on to beechy beachy island with about ten of my own crew to be taken home the first opportunity may 2 investigators second party consisting of liens cresswell and mr piers and mr Mier taching arrived bringing two men on their sledge they made an extraordinary passage across for men in their state the greater part of them are effected with the scurvy but are an rapidly improving