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wliich eating snow only increased, from its inflamma- 

 tory effect. Our poor dogs were almost famished. 

 Mooldooyali would never allow us to give them our 

 owTi provisions, both because we might not be able 

 to spare them, and also that, as he stated, they could 

 go \vitliout food for three or four days, in cases of 

 necessity : the small quantities we nevertheless per- 

 sisted in giving them once or twice, were by far 

 inadequate to their wants, and the consequence was, 

 that when we halted at nights, the dogs, burying them- 

 selves in the snow as usual, quietly gnawed away at 

 their harness, which was of seal-hide; and in the 

 morning, when attempting to depart, a solitary dog, 

 representing the team, would possibly emerge from 

 its laii", the rest having entirely detached themselves 

 from the sledges ; they had then to be sought for, 

 and harnessed with whatever could be found. 



My companions and myself repaii'ed to the yarang 

 of Teo, our guides taking up their abode in another 

 belonging to a friend of theirs, Yappo by name. The 

 united barking of the whole assembly of dogs, 

 including om* own, soon caused the yarangas, closed 

 at dusk, to re-open, and we were welcomed with 

 eagerness, which, upon a knowledge of our sorry 

 plight, was changed into bustling assistance and 

 exclamations of sympathy. Scarcely wxre we 



