i8 DAN MEINERTZHAGEN'S DIARY. 



including boots, we could scarcely sleep for the 

 cold, which must have registered some degrees 

 below zero outside. 



We were awake by five o'clock and had some 

 coffee and started. This brings us to to-day. 

 Last night I forgot to mention we tried going 

 on skaes and succeeded beyond our best hopes, 

 being able to get on quite well. The day was 

 again very fine and the sun very hot. 



About ten o'clock we arrived at a hut called 

 Silastre, and left the ponies and sledges to 

 water, while Bob and 1 set out ahead. We 

 arrived at Kilpis-Jarvi, a large lake, giving rise 

 to the Muonio river, which is about 15 or 16 

 miles long, and started walking across. We 

 walked to where there was some open water, 

 evidently a hot spring, and about seven miles 

 from where we started walking, and had a long 

 drink and sat down to wait for the sledges, 

 which arrived about an hour afterwards. We 

 were both very sunburnt, and Bob had the 

 toothache. I washed my handkerchief in the 

 water and put it in the sun to dry, but in about 

 a minute it was frozen stiff like a sheet of 

 paper, and yet we were sitting down, 

 sweating and drinking snow water, which 

 shows how little one feels this dry cold where 

 there is no wind. On leaving the lake and 



