. Round about the North pole . ar in the winter season, that the same dogscould not go and return, and that from having to walkconstantly on snow-shoes he would suffer a great dealof misery and fatigue. Nevertheless he undertook thejourney in dog-sledges with a Canadian and an Indian,leaving Wentzel behind. At times the weather was socold that they had to run to keep themselves warm,and, owing to the snow, the feet of the dogs became soraw that an endeavour was made to fit them withshoes. With legs and ankles so swollen that it waspainful to drag the snow-shoes after him, Back hurriedon, reach
. Round about the North pole . ar in the winter season, that the same dogscould not go and return, and that from having to walkconstantly on snow-shoes he would suffer a great dealof misery and fatigue. Nevertheless he undertook thejourney in dog-sledges with a Canadian and an Indian,leaving Wentzel behind. At times the weather was socold that they had to run to keep themselves warm,and, owing to the snow, the feet of the dogs became soraw that an endeavour was made to fit them withshoes. With legs and ankles so swollen that it waspainful to drag the snow-shoes after him, Back hurriedon, reaching Fort Chippewyan on the 2nd of Januaryto find that he and all Franklins party had beenreported to have been killed by Eskimos. Here he hadto wait a month, and then, with an instalment of whathe wanted, he set out on his return, arriving at FortEnterprise on St. Patricks Day after a memorablejourney of over a thousand miles. During his absence he was told that the cold hadbeen so severe that Hood had found accurate observing. THE RAPIDS OF THE COPPERMINE 153 difficult owing to the sextant having changed its errorand the glasses lost their parallelism from the contrac-tion of the brass, a circumstance, combined with thecrystallisation of the mercury of the artificial horizon,that might account for some of the diversity of resultsobtained by Arctic navigators. And Richardson hadto tell him of an early discovery that when fishing andthe hands get cold by hauling in the line, the best wayto warm them is to put them in the water; and how thefish had frozen as they were taken out of the water sothat by a blow or two of the hatchet they were easilysplit open, leaving the intestines removable in one lump,and yet that these much-frozen fish retained theirvitality so that he had seen a thawed carp recover sofar as to leap about with much vigour after it had beenfrozen for thirty-six hours. On the 14th of June Fort Enterprise was left, andon the 25th the expedition began to cross Point
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