1853.] 



FEET WRAPPERS. 



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established the canvas boots, the Hudson Bay custom, 

 the blanket wrapper. This latter is formed of a piece of 

 good thick blanket, of at least fifteen inches square. 



It is very important that these feet wrappers should 

 be well put on, and elastic socks should have been pro- 

 vided to keep them in their places : the stoppage, to 

 replace them, will seldom be permitted ; and exposure to 

 cold in doing so may inflict frost-bite. The boot must 

 not be tight, and no pressure should be allowed at any 

 part : I fear the canvas straps on the instep of those now 

 made may prove injurious. 



MfircJt 22. At 7.30, temp. + 22. The depot-sledges, 

 charged with fifty days' depot for twenty-four men, or 

 twelve hundred rations, independent of ten days' for the 

 party, consisting of "sixty-seven men, took their depar- 

 ture, under the command of Commander Richards, the 

 remainder of the 'crews accompanying them to the point 

 where they all made sail ; each sledge being fitted either 

 with sheers or masts, according to their separate idea of 

 sledgemanship, and using the tent bottom, about nine 

 feet by twelve, as a sail. They carried also with them 

 a whale-boat and light ice-boat, on sledges prepared to 

 support them. These, with the depot, were to be se- 



