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DARKNESS. 
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the advantages of an insular climate and tempered by 
ocean currents, no Christians have wintered in so high 
a latitude as this. They are Russian sailors who make 
the encounter there, men inured to hardships and cold. 
I cannot help thinking of the sad chronicles of the early 
NOONDAr in NOVEMBER. 
Dutch, who perished year after year, without leaving a 
comrade to record their fate. 
“ Our darkness has ninety days to run before we shall 
get back again even to the contested twilight of to-day. 
Altogether, our winter will have been sunless for one 
hundred and forty days. 
