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eyes, it is, as a rule, sufficient to rub in soot round the eyes and on 

 the nose. Now and then one comes across people who can play 

 what tricks they like without snow-blindness attacking them, as, 

 for instance, the mate. As it will be seen, snow-blindness, like 

 sea-sickness, is quite individual. The one principle of prevention 

 is to shut out the surplus light which the person in question may 

 be unable to endure, and as the more the eye is protected from the 

 light the better, I should be inclined to think that smoke- 



in. FROM THE HEAD OF BAY FJORD, FARTHEST EAST. 



coloured spectacles are the best. The most dangerous time for 

 the eyes is from April to midsummer ; when once there is water 

 on the ice the critical period is over. 



In the evening we turned out again. The doctor was so much 

 better by then that he said he thought he should be quite well 

 again soon, if he kept quiet for a little while. I asked him if he 

 would not like me to go back to the ship with him, but he said 

 no, that he would rather remain where he was ; he thought that 

 as soon as his eyes were well, there would he nothing further the 

 matter with him. 



Simmons then started botanizing in the neighbourhood of the 



