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just as the men do. Tlieir sleds are about two feet in length. The 

 village, outside the igloos, was illuminated with '^nanny-roons,^^ or lan- 

 terns, some of ice, others of snow. Hall says, about these: "Really 

 there is no occasion for any one to bring glass windows or glassware 

 into this country, for King Cold gives us the material during nine 

 months of the year. These lanterns are fine specimens of the handi- 

 work of the race." 



On the 3d of February, Hall and Nu-ker-zhoo made a very rough 

 journey back to Oo-gla-ri-your Island, to recover a favorite artificial 

 horizon, first used on the expedition of 1860 to 1862. The instrument 

 was readily found by Nu-ker-zhoo on the surface of the snow, but in a 

 damaged state; the woodwork eaten by foxes and the mercury wholly 

 lost. The two were back at Now-yarn at the close of the second day, 

 having passed one night in an igloo on the ice. On this trip of sixty 

 miles they were more than once jerked from the flying sledge "like 

 stones from a sling." On the island a native sledge was found, made 



ESKIMO SLEDGE. 



entirely of the jaw-bone of a whale. It was very heavy. The run- 

 ners were 12 feet long, 10 inches deep, and IJ inches thick, and were 



