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they travelled from day to day, enduring it as stoically 

 as possible, and making up to some extent for their dis- 

 comfort while travelling by enjoying themselves beneath 

 their snow-burrows during the few hours allotted to re- 

 pose. The frost-biting of their faces, however, became 

 at last so intolerable, that they fell upon the expedient 

 of protecting the parts most vulnerable by means of 

 sundry curious and original kinds of coverings. "For 

 the eyes/ 7 says Kennedy, "we had goggles of glass, of 

 wire-gauze, of crape, or of plain wood with a slit in the 

 centre, in the manner of the Esquimaux. For the face, 

 some had cloth-masks, with neat little crevices for the 

 mouth, nose, and eyes ; others were muflled up in the 

 ordinary chin-cloth, and, for that most troublesome of 

 the facial members, the nose, a strong party, with 

 our always original carpenter at their head, had 

 gutta-percha noses, lined with delicate soft flannel." 

 These contrivances, though admirable in theory, proved 

 complete failures in practice. They were ultimately 

 discarded, with the exception of the chin-cloths and 

 goggles. 



The daily routine of operations was as follows : They 

 rose at six, but did not dress -- having slept in theii 

 clothes, that operation was unnecessary ; then they 

 breakfasted ; after which came the bundling up and 

 lashing of the sledges, and the harnessing of the dogs 

 the latter operation always being accomplished amidst 

 considerable uproar. Then came the start ; Kennedy 

 leading the way, Bellot following, and the party in a 

 string bringing up the rear. So on they went, over hill 

 and dale and along shore, from morn till night, stopping 

 every hour for five minutes to rest the men and breathe 

 the dogs, and halting, when opportunity offered, to find 

 their latitude and longitude. The construction of a 

 snow-hut, and the consumption of the evening meal, 



