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tear in your fur or woollen clothing makes you aware of its existence, and 

 one's nose, ears, and angles generally are the special sufferers." One day when 

 the thermometer stood at 10°, an expedition started off for the coast : and once 

 when it was at 32°, a half -clad Indian came to the post with his child, no better 



clad, bringing some game ; he did not seem to think the day remarkably cold. 

 The shortest day of the winter was December 21, when the sun was an hour 

 and fifty minutes above the horizon. 



During the winter Mr. Whymper made many capital sketches out-of-doors, 

 while the temperature was sixty degrees below freezing-point. Among these 



