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to the influence of ‘cold, so that: it chilled him at once,
and: produced that deadly lethargy ‘from. which, but
for the timely aid of his’ corupemions, he would never’
have recovered.

The arrangements for supping and. spnagh hie:
night miade rapid progress, and, under the influence of
fire and animal heat—for the dogs. were taken in
beside them—the igloe became comfortably warm.
Yet the snow-walls did not.melt, or become moist, the
intense cold without being sufficient to counteract and
‘protect: them: from the heat within. The fair roof,
however, soon became very dingy, and the odour of
melted fat rather powerful. But Arctic travellers are
.proof against such: trifles. — 3

The tarpaulin was spread over the floor; and a tin
-: lamp, into which several fat portions of the walrus
“were put, was suspended froma stick thrust into the
wall. Round this lamp the huntérs cirdled, each
seated on his blanket-bag, and each attended to the
duty which devolved upon him.. Meetuck held a tin
kettle over the flame till the snow with which it was
filled melted and became cold water, and then gradu-
ally heated until it boiled; and all the while he em-
ployed himself in masticating a lump of raw walrus-
flesh, much to the amusement of Fred, and to the
disgust, real or pretended, of O'Riley. But the Irish-
man, and Fred too, and every. man on board the
Dolphin, came at last to relish raw meat, and. to long
for it! - The Esquimaux prefer it raw in these parts
of the world (although some travellers assert that in