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The Musk-ox 



1 2 pounds of tobacco. 



Several boxes of matches. 



Flint and steel and tinder. 



Two bottles of mustang liniment (which 

 promptly froze solid and remained so; it was 

 fortunate I did not have occasion to use it). 



In addition I carried, in case of emergency, 

 such as amputation of frozen toes or other 

 equally unpleasant incidents, a surgeon's knife, 

 antiseptic lozenges, bandages, and iodoform. Of 

 this outfit no two articles were more important 

 perhaps than the moose-skin gloves and the 

 strouds. The gloves are worn inside the mittens 

 and worn always ; one never goes barehanded in 

 the Barren Grounds at any time, day or night, 

 if one is wise. The strouds (reaching above the 

 knee and held up by a thong and loop attached 

 to waist belt) catch the flying and freezing 

 snow dust from the snow-shoes, thus protecting 

 the trousers. I forgot to add, by the way, that 

 I wore Irish frieze trousers, cut small at the 

 bottoms so as to be easily tied about the ankles. 

 My underwear was of the heaviest, and I carried 

 a pair of moccasin slippers made of the unborn 

 musk-ox calf, fur inside. If you ever make a trip 

 after musk-oxen, do not bring in anything from 



