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earth, or may be looked for at any moment, the 

 nights become too cold to render dwelling in 

 tents any longer desirable. A tent can be used in 

 winter, and I have dwelt in one in extreme cold, 

 when the thermometer went down as low as 32° 

 below zero. It was rendered habitable by a little 

 stove, which made it at the same time exceedingly 

 disagreeable. A stove sufficiently small to be 

 portable only contained wood enough to burn for 

 an hour and a half or so. Consequently some one 

 had to sit up all night to replenish it. Now, 

 nobody could keep awake, and the result was that 

 we had to pass through the unpleasant ordeal of 

 alternately freezing and roasting during the whole 

 night. The stove was of necessity composed of 

 very thin sheet iron, as lightness was an important 

 object, and consequently when it was filled with 

 good birch wood and well under way, it became 

 red-hot, and rendered the atmosphere in the 

 tent insupportable. In about half an hour or so 

 it would cool down a little, and one would drop 

 off to sleep, only to wake in about an hour's time 

 shivering, to find everything frozen soHd in the 

 tent, and the fire nearly out. Such a method of 

 passing the night is little calculated to ensure 

 sound sleep. In the depth of winter it is quite 



