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schoolmaster's ruler twenty-five years before. One of 
the crew had his tongue completely excoriated. An- 
other, who had lost a molar tooth seven years ago, 
spit from the cavity a conoidal wedge : I had no 
chance of examining it hy the microscope; hut an 
impression of the cavity in wax showed the sides per- 
fectly smooth, and the vertex intersected hy lines of 
ossification. I have spoken already of my lance mark 
in the groin : it had been healed some three years ; 
hut it now threatened suppuration again wherever it 
bore the marks of the surgeon's knife. 
We had unfortunately almost exhausted our supply 
of antiscorbutic drinks, and were driven to the manu- 
facture of substitutes not always the most palatable. 
One of them, which served at least as a vehicle for 
lime-juice and muriate of iron, was, however, a rec- 
ognized exception. It was a beer, of which a rem- 
nant of dried peaches and some raisins, with barley 
and brown sugar, formed the fermenting basis. The 
men drank it in. most liberal quantities. 
On the 10th we had an exhibition of the day aurora 
again, less brilliant than the one I have described a 
few pages back, but quite well marked. It was fol- 
lowed at night by the paraselene. Another atmos- 
pheric display, which occurred a few days afterward, 
attracted more notice. 
''March 13. Again a day of bright sunshine, but to 
my feelings colder than our lowest temperatures. The 
thermometer stood at —24° in the shade at noon, and 
the wind was very light. Yet there was a cutting 
asperity about it that made your face tingle — a sensa- 
tion as if evaporation was going on under the skin — 
quite a painful one. At four in the afternoon the 
atmosphere was studded with glistening particles. I 
