(xtober, 1864.1 Wififo' Quartcrs. 



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fullness, study and correct typographical errors in his Bowdit(;h, mikI 

 work up his observations. lie often "wondered at the simj. licit \ in 

 Avhich the necessities of life may ])e reduced. His house was a 



INNUIT LAMP. 



(Deposited by Hall in the Smitlisonian lustitution ; the fracture inendod by the natives, with 

 sinew. Dimensions: Length, 26 inches; depth, 11^ inches to base of flange; flange, yj 

 inches thick, 2 inches high.) 



building without a corner, wdthout props or braces; the wall, rool", 

 and door a unity, yet so strong as to defy the power of the fiercest 

 Arctic gales." 



Hall w'as now fairly established in his winter quarters. His 

 instruments for making his observations were as yet unhurt, lie had 

 no apprehensions as to a want of provision. The Sylvia and other 

 boats were safely housed. And it may not be a matter too trivial in 

 this case to be noticed that Ebierbing, by the use of scissors, plied the 

 vocation of barber to Hall's beard, over wdiich a razor had not } Kissed 

 for six years. "Its length had been a special protection in the sunnner 

 months against those tremendous blood-suckers called in' the Englisli 

 tongue mosquitoes, which abound in sw\arms here." This last state- 

 ment maybe remembered in contrast wdth the experience of Tany's 

 men in the higher latitude of Winter Harbor in June. Parry says : 

 "The mosquito," Culex pipiens, "was never of the least annoyance 

 to us, as is the case on the shores of Hudson's Bay and other cold 

 countries." 



