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the sick, who had no other retreat, were tortured. 

 Condensers of various kinds had been tried and 

 some w r ere still continued ; but at last it occurred 

 to me that it w<ould be worth while to try the 

 effect of a long canvass funnel, fixed on the top 

 of the doorway and carried above the housing, 

 in the hope that a considerable part of the im- 

 pure atmosphere below might thus be carried off. 

 This w r as no sooner fixed than the advantages 

 were at once perceptible ; a continuous stream of 

 vapour rose through it resembling smoke, for 

 which, indeed, a novice would have taken it. A 

 difference of temperature of eighteen degrees was 

 the consequence ; but, for the first time, we could 

 see along the whole length of the lower deck. 

 The two following days were so bitterly cold, the 

 wind still blowing fresh from N. N. W., that no 

 exercise could be taken outside the ship. 



On the 31st the wind veered a few points to 

 the north, but with scarcely any diminution in 

 force, and we were confined to the semi-circular 

 space inclosed between snow w r alls on the larboard 

 side of the ship, and called humourously enough 

 "the Court-yard." But notwithstanding foot- 

 ball twice a day and a swing from the bowsprit, 

 which, as a novelty, was for a time much used, 

 the liability to pains in the legs still continued ; 

 to obviate which, still further precautions were 

 taken against damp clothing by fitting up a dry- 



