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, eo the ice deserts, Kennedy, McClintock, Bellot, Suther- 
im, Osborne, Richards, and many others of the numer- 
ve 
and, 
formerly. Experience has taught us many valuable lessons. By 
housing in the upper deck of the vessel, and using the porous 
snow as an external covering, the winters may be passed in 
health and comparative comfort, and even travelling may be per- 
formed during this season, if the parties are well supplied with 
heavy furs and sufficient quantities of carbonaceous food. 
scurvy, hitherto often a great scourge to the crews of vessels 
Wintering in the Arctic regions, can, with proper precaution, be 
resisted, and in this opinion I am sustained by the united testi- 
co 
other standard supplies of food, or of their having so long re- 
mained in the field as to have consumed their fresh 
eed, I am convinced that the climate is one of unusual heath- 
fulness, The suffering from the disease among Dr. Kane’s crew 
Was mainly owing to the above mentioned cause. He started too 
early to profit fully by the discove ies which have been made in 
f preserving fresh meats and vegeta 
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with the natives, and when 
: i his men to resist the disease, or, if 
ne: epost enabled his m age 
meat acted injuriously upoD them, and the insufficient oe 
