GENERAL APPEARANCE. 
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“ Imagine me, then, externally clad as I have 
described, but with furs and woollens layer upon layer 
inside, like the shards of an artichoke, till I am 
rounded into absolute obesity. Without all this, I 
cannot keep up my circulation on a sledge; nor indeed 
FOX'S TAIL ANO MITTENS. 
without active exercise, if the thermometer is below 
—54°, the lowest at which I have taken the floes. I 
have to run occasionally* or I should succumb to the 
cold.” 
So much for my resources of travel, as I have thrown 
them together from different pages of my journal. The 
