WINTER QUARTERS. 
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We are careful to impress them with our physical 
prowess, and avoid showing either fatigue or cold when 
we are travelling together. I could not help being 
amused some ten days ago with the complacent manner 
of Myouk, as he hooked himself to me for support after 
I had been walking for thirty miles ahead of the sledge. 
The fellow was worth four of me; but he let me carry 
him almost as far as the land-ice. 
THE BRIQ IN HER SECOND WINTER. 
“We have been completing our arrangements for 
raising the brig. The heavy masses of ice that adhere 
to her in the winter make her condition dangerous at 
seasons of low tide. Her frame could not sustain the 
pressure of such a weight. Our object, therefore, has 
been to lift her mechanically above her line of flotation, 
and let her freeze in on a sort of ice-dock; so that the 
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