THE WHITE WORLD 



Large parties were the rule at this time; the night was 

 divided into watches, and in each mess one kept awake all 

 the time to tend the little sheet-iron stove that warmed the 

 tent. Only those who traveled without stoves or tents 



THE LONG LINE OF MEN" 



knew to the full the biting severity of the cold of the long 

 Arctic night. These men regarded their better-equipped 

 companions in much the same spirit that the tramp sitting 

 beside the railroad looks at the traveler in the Pullman. 

 Yet some of them, before the journey was over, had be- 

 come so enamored of the very hardships that they would 

 not have changed for a berth with a dog team. 



When the weather was not exceptionally severe, these 

 men passed the night behind brush wind-breaks, with no 

 fire, wrapped in icy board-like blankets, and perhaps buried 

 in the snow for greater warmth. When, however, their 

 evening camp-fires sent up a volume of pure white steam 

 into the starry air, instead of the usual column of blue 

 smoke, they knew that if they rolled in their blankets that 



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