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Hall Frequently Frost- Bitten. 



[January, 1S63. 



Having- re-shod their runners with ice, they now repeated their 

 experiences of the preceding- day and made a journey of 2G miles in a 

 south-southwest direction, tlie children riding all the way, but the 

 grown persons about half the time walking or running- beside the 

 sleds. 



SEAL-SKIN IUXJTS. 



BEAR-SKIN MITTENt 



Watching Hall, the natives on this day, and on the days follow- 

 ing, thirty times restored his frost-bitten nose and cheeks by their 

 vigorous rubbing. He accounts for this frosting by the fact that for 

 the preceding month he had eaten but little, having lost all appetite 

 for walrus-meat, and by his leaving his "phiz" unprotected, as he 

 wis] led it to become hardened to cold. His cheek at one time re- 

 mained frozen fifteen minutes. 



In the i[/loo occupied the second night, slabs of frozen l-oiv (walrus- 

 hide) were hung on spears running crosswise near the top of the hut. 

 They were tlius partially thawed by morning, when the dogs were 

 (•;ill('(l ill one at a time and fed on short strips of the meat. 



On tlie tliird day a furious gale was encountered, whicli increased 

 bolow Cape Fullcrton, compelling a halt at 2.15 }). m., at the end of a 

 journey of 26 miles, during which it had been necessary to encase the 

 children in reindeer-skins, and lash them on Ou-e-la!s sled. 



TIk; iirst sti-oke of tlie spear in testing at tliis place the snow and 



