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stand either of these phenomena. His Innuit fricnids ('oiiijd.iiiu'd tliat 

 in times of severe cold their fire-lamps were very dull. 



According to an early-formed purpose, he and Kbierbing li;id 

 begun in November to prepare enough deer-skins for their riill w inter 



raiment. This work comprised the different operations of dr}ing, 

 scraping, re-drying, and ro-scraping described in ('haptcr W . Too- 

 koo-li-too, as a young mother, could not work on these. Ar-nioa and 

 his wife had already prepared their furs. Hall found himself a green 

 hand in even the first of these operations, which gave him four times 

 the work of an Innuit. It took two skins to make him a single koo- 

 lee-tang, or native coat or frock. For a double one for winter use four 

 were used. 



To get sufficient warmth to dry the skins, they were hung around 

 the " Conjurer," or small cook-stove, in the "snow ^ ^ 



kitchen"; and, as the heather could not be spared for ^J'■^. -'^ ^'| 

 the drying only, a quantity of coffee was browned 

 at the same time. Ebierbing was able to use his 

 needle so deftl}^ that he made himself a pair of mit- Oi^j^^' 

 tens of the skin from two deer-legs. dkku-skin glovks. 



Hall's clothing was now almost exclusively of furs. By the mid- 

 dle of December he had doffed his undershirt, and in February, his 

 drawers; and for the rest of the season he dressed wholly like his 

 Innuit companions. His experience as to the influence of imagina- 

 tion upon his sensibility to cold is noted in the fact that, on several 

 occasions, when the Eskimos repeatedly expressed their surprise that 

 he did not protect himself while making his observations outside of 

 his if/loo, he seemed unconscious of the increased cold ; he had been 



