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shou should arrive. After experimenting with vari- 

 ous kinds of medicines I took several Tully's tablets 

 one night, slept well and late into the next morning, 

 and arose feeling much better save the continuance 

 of pains in my back. 



The sun could now be seen over the low hills. In 

 a few days more he would climb over the higher 

 mountains and cast his rays through the little window 

 in our camp. The chemical change in the atmos- 

 phere caused by the sunlight may have had something 

 to do with my illness. I was gradually losing my 

 yellowish-green complexion, however, and my skin 

 began taking on a normal color. When I first saw 

 myself in a mirror, after the return of full daylight, 

 I must confess that this unnatural appearance of my 

 skin, giving me the look of a man deathly sick, 

 startled me with momentary fright. As stated be- 

 fore, even inanimate things had assumed this peculiar 

 tinge. For example, upon unpacking a box contain- 

 ing a pair of bearskin trousers, which had been quite 

 white when put away in the fall, I found them now 

 very yellow, though rubbing with snow made them 

 white again. Several other things in my bag were 

 also very yellow. 



The weather was even colder than during the sun- 

 less period, though the direct rays of the sun gave 

 appreciable warmth. We had many days when the 

 thermometer recorded thirty-five degrees below zero 

 as the highest temperature during twenty-four hours. 

 'One had to be very careful at all times not to touch 

 bare hands to metal, wood, ice or any hard material; 



