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in a wintering in the high nortli, were, when the lirst cold 

 occurred, more or less frostbitten, on several occasions so that 

 there arose high frost-blisters filled with bloody water, several 

 square centimetres in extent, but fortunately never to such a 

 degree that any serious bad results followed. After we, new- 



IHE WINTER DRESS OF THE ■" VEliA MEN, 



comers to the Polar regions, warned by experience, became more 

 careful, such frostbites occurred but seldom. Nor did there 

 occur a single case of frostbite in the feet. To this conduced 

 our clothing, which was adapted to the climate, and, besides good 



