SNOW-BLINDNESS. 
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as the same obstructions had done to the party of poor 
Brooks before their eventful rescue last March. 
Their course was now extremely tortuous; for, al¬ 
though from the headlands of llensselaer Harbor to the 
point which they first reached on the northern coast 
DOGS AMONG BERGS. 
was not more than ninety miles as the crow flies, 
yet by the dead reckoning of the party they must 
have had an actual travel of two hundred and seventy. 
For the details of this passage I refer the reader to 
the appended report of Dr. Hayes. His gravest and 
most insurmountable difficulty was snow-blindness, 
which so affected him that for some time he was not 
