KANE'S ADVICE ON ARCTIC TRAVEL. 



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skin bag 1 , and coffee to boot, and with the clothes on my back I am ready for minus 60, 

 but no wind. 



( ' The programme runs after this fashion : Keep the blood in motion, without loitering 



KALUTUNAH. 



on the march ; and for the halt raise a snow-house ; or, if the snow lies scant or impracticable, 

 - ensconce yourself in a burrow or under the hospitable lee of an inclined hummock-slab. 

 The outside fat of your walrus sustains your little moss fire ; its frozen slices give you bread, 

 its frozen blubber gives you butter, other parts make the soup. The snow supplies 

 you with water; and when you are ambitious of coffee there is a bagful stowed away in 

 your boot. Spread out your bear-bag, your only heavy movable; stuff your reindeer-bag 



