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KAPETAH AND NESSAK. 
study of experience. Except a spare pair of boots, 
it is all upon the back. It requires the energies of 
tyrant custom to discipline a traveller into comfort 
under these Smith Sound temperatures 5 and, let him 
dress as he may, his drill will avail but little unless 
he has a windless atmosphere without and a heat- 
creating body within. 
“Rightly clad, he is a lump of deformity waddling 
NESSAK. 
KAPETAH. 
over the ice, unpicturesque, uncouth, and seemingly 
helpless. It is only when you meet him covered with 
rime, his face peering from an icy halo, his beard glued 
with frozen respiration, that you look with intelligent 
appreciation on his many-coated panoply against King 
Death. 
“The Smith’s Straits fox-skin jumper, or Jcapetah, is 
a closed shirt, fitting very loosely to the person, but 
adapted to the head and neck by an almost air-tight 
hood, the nessah. The kapetah is put on from below; 
