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eking out our firewood, and have reduced our consump¬ 
tion of pitch-pine to thirty-nine pounds a day. But 
the fine particles of soot throughout the room have 
affected the lungs of the sick so much that I shall be 
obliged to give it up. I am now trying the Manilla; 
but it consumes too rapidly: with care we may make 
something of it. 
“January 22, Monday.—Busy preparing for my trip 
to the lower Esquimaux settlement. The barometer 
remains at the extraordinary height of 30-85,—a bad 
prelude to a journey! 
“Petersen caught another providential fox. We 
divided him into nine portions, three for each of our 
scurvied patients.-1 am off.” 
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