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Winter Quarters at TaJloo)/. 



[December, 1S6S. 



Eeturning from the last of these surveys, made as has been seen 

 after the full setting in of the cold of November, Hall had before him 

 a period of four months to be passed through before a sledge trip for 



the Franklin Records could be renewed. The first half of this period 

 was spent in rest and amid the winter festivities of the natives ; the 

 second iialf was a time of the severest labor and fatigue in preparing 

 provisions for his next and last journey before returning to the United 

 States. 



