228 Meteorological Notes Duruff/ the Winter. 



falling- suow are all iiiterniiuj;lc'd, and both are swept aloug over the earth at a 

 speed that, sometimes I tliiuk, should take them round the great globe in forty 

 minutes. Ofttimes the shrewdest natives cannot tell whether it is simply drift 

 riving- or both falling snow and drift. 



The weather at times during November was so warm that the 

 roofs of the igloos needed rebuilding. Repeated appHcations of new 

 blocks were made to the places from which the melted snow was 

 dripping. 



The 22d of January, 1866, was a hurricane day. Within the igloos 

 1 luried deep under the drift, the howling of the storm was heard through- 

 out tlie night. The women, rising first as usual, cleared the passage- 

 way, and came back from its mouth to tell of the tempest. At nine 

 o'clock Hall attempted to go outside to make his observations, but as 

 he stepped beyond the wind-proof wall of snow-blocks which shielded 

 the entrance-way to the tunnel, he was instantly knocked heels over 

 head. On raising his head, for one instant he saw the snow flying; the 

 next, he was blinded; but by little and little he worked himself, directly 

 in the eye of the hurricane, till he struck on what he knew to be one 

 r>f tlie snow -walls of the tunnel. He says that "the whole world 

 around seemed one mighty snow-drift, and if he had any conscious- 

 ness at all. it was that he felt as though he were in chaos. Heaven 

 had his lirst thanks, and the Inniiit who built that snow-wall his 

 second." 



On the loth of February a hurricane prevailed all day, charged 

 Mith a tciiijx'raturc of — 40". At one time, one of the dogs was found 

 entin-K biiiicd under the drift, his line being too short to let him keep 

 upon the suit'acc. When released he was a happy dog ; even before 

 eating, '' i>risk as a cricket." 



