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that the crew, apprehensive of being obliged to winter 

 there, sent four of their men in a boat to seek for a hut, 

 which they knew to have been erected near that coast. 

 The hut was discovered ; but the men, on returning to the 

 shore, found all the ice cleared away, and the ship no 

 longer to be seen ; and indeed it was never more heard of 



(p. 97). 



' The flesh they eat almost raw, and without salt ; using 



by way of bread to it, other flesh dried hard in the smoke. 



Their drink was running water in the summer, and melted 



ice and snow in the winter. Their preservatives against the 



scurvy were, swallowing raw frozen meat broken into bits, 



drinking the warm blood of reindeer just killed, eating 



scurvy-grass, when they could meet with it, and using 



much exercise. By these means three of them remained 



entirely free from this disease during the whole of their 



abode. The fourth died of it after lingering on to the 



sixth year. 



* In a note to the account of the four Russians, it is said, 

 " Counsellor Muller says, the Russians about Archangel 

 should be imitated ; some of whom every year winter in 

 Nova Zembla without ever contracting the scurvy. They 

 follow the example of the Samoides, by frequently drinking 

 the warm blood of reindeer just killed. The hunting of 

 these animals requires continual exercise. None ever 

 keep their huts during the day, unless the stormy weather, 

 or too great quantity of snow, hinders them from taking 

 their usual exercise." 



* In a manuscript French account of the islands lying 

 between Kamtschatka and America, drawn up by that 

 eminent naturalist and geographer, Mr. Pallas, I find it 

 mentioned that * the Russians in their hunting voyages to 



