DISADVANTAGES OF A BEARD. 53 



used to cold than ourselves, we were obliged to get up in the 

 night to replenish the fire. 



I have already described my leather A-teiit, which was in- 

 valuable when such a man as F was with us, who would 



have frozen if he had slept in the open. He had made himself 

 a buffalo-bag too, and watching him getting into it was very 

 amusing. The process is simple, being merely to open the mouth 

 of the bag and step into it, then giving a jump and pulling the 

 bag up at the same time, continuing this until far enough in to 

 sit down, when you slide yourself in, turn the end in under 

 your head, and you soon get warm if lying by a fire : your 

 breath contributing a good deal towards the warming of the 



inside air, though I fear the ventilation is bad. Now with F 



the jumping was the difficulty, his attempts much resembling 

 those of a young elephant, making even Ki-chi-mo-ko-man laugh. 



I found during this trip that a man with a heavy beard and 

 moustache labours under great disadvantages in a very cold 

 country, as his breath freezes it all into one solid mass. This 



was the case with F , and we had great fun by making him 



laugh, as this necessitated his opening his mouth so that he felt 

 as if all the hair was being torn out by the roots. 



Very soon after starting F had to get out and walk, and 



in less than an hour he was in difficulties. I cheered him upas 

 well as I could, and Ki-chi-mo-ko-man frightened him by telling 

 him of Indians who had been partially frozen and then eaten by 

 wolves (an instance of which I saw myself on another occasion) ; 

 but it was all of no use, and about four o'clock on the first 

 afternoon he sat down and declared he would go no further. 

 We put him on the sleigh and managed to get him to a good 

 camping place, where we remained till morning. 



