ARCTIC EXPLORATIONS. 
CHAPTER L 
MODES OF LIFE-THE INSIDE DOG — PROJECTED JOURNEY-DOG- 
HABITS—THE DARKNESS—RAW MEAT-PLANS FOR SLEDGING— 
THE SOUTHEAST WINDS-PLAN OF JOURNEY — A RELISHING 
LUNCH—ITINERARY—OUTFIT—CARGO AND CLOTHING—KAPETAII 
AND NESSAK FOOT-GEAR THE FOX TAIL-CARPET-KNIGHTS_ 
BURNING CABLES. 
“ January 6, 1855, Saturday.—If this journal ever 
gets to be inspected by other eyes, the color of its 
pages will tell of the atmosphere it is written in. We 
have been emulating the Esquimaux for some time in 
every thing else; and now, last of all, this intolerable 
temperature and our want of fuel have driven us to 
rely on our lamps for heat. Counting those which I 
have added since the wanderers came back, we have 
twelve constantly going, with the grease and soot 
everywhere in proportion. 
“I can hardly keep my charts and registers in any 
thing like decent trim. Our beds and bedding are 
absolutely black, and our faces begrimed with fatty 
carbon like the Esquimaux of South Greenland. 
Nearer to us, our Smith’s Straits Esquimaux are much 
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