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and plaster- of -Paris bandages, for possible broken leo;s 

 and arms; aperient pills and laudanum for derangements 

 of the stomach, which were never required ; chloroform 

 in case of an amputation, for example, from frost-bite ; a 

 couple of small glasses of cocaine in solution for snow- 

 blindness (also unused); drops for toothache, carbolic 

 acid, iodoform gauze, a couple of curved needles, and 

 some silk for sewing up wounds; a scalpel, two artery 

 ■ tweezers (also for amputations), and a few other sundries. 

 Happily our medicines were hardly ever required, except 

 that the ligatures and bandages came in very handily 

 the following winter as wicks for our train-oil lamps. 

 Still better for this purpose, however, is Nicolaysen's plas- 

 ter, of which we had taken a supply for possible broken 

 collar-bones. The layer of wax we scraped carefully off 

 and found it most satisfactory for calking our leaky kayaks. 



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