The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . ond expedition, which now (SeiJtem-ber, 18G9) is not completed. Early in January Hall resolved to make an exploring expedition with thedog-team Avhich he had bought at Holsteinborg. The party consisted of him-self, Ebierbing, Tookoolito, and another Esquimaux, named Koodloo. Thesledge was drawn by ten dogs—five of Avhich belonged to Hall, and five toEbierbing. They relied for food mainly upon the proceeds of their hunt-ing, taking with them only a pound and a half of preserved mut
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . ond expedition, which now (SeiJtem-ber, 18G9) is not completed. Early in January Hall resolved to make an exploring expedition with thedog-team Avhich he had bought at Holsteinborg. The party consisted of him-self, Ebierbing, Tookoolito, and another Esquimaux, named Koodloo. Thesledge was drawn by ten dogs—five of Avhich belonged to Hall, and five toEbierbing. They relied for food mainly upon the proceeds of their hunt-ing, taking with them only a pound and a half of preserved mutton, threepounds of salt pork, fifteen pounds of sea-bread, three pounds of pork scrapsfor soup, and a little coffee, pepper, and molasses. The trip lasted nearly a. |month and a half, during which time Hall learned to live like the Esquimauxin their snow cabins, and subsisted mainly upon raw seal flesh. When he re-turned to the ship it was hard for him to accustom himself to the change fromthe pure atmosphere of a snow-house to the confined air of a small cabin. CHARLES FRANCIS HALL AND THE INNUITS. ?443. STORM-BOUND. Had Kane but known how to pass an Arctic winter, the world would neverhave had occasion to read one of the most pathetic accounts ever written ofsuffering. Buddington, the captain of the George Henry, had learned the les-son by dear experience. Five years before, when in command of another ves-sel, he had lost thirteen of his men by scurvy. • But, said he, I am not nowafraid of losing any more men by scurvy while I have command ovei there are appearances of it on board, I will have every pork and beefbarrel—salt provisions of every kind—headed up at once, and every man shalllive upon bread and fresh provision, such as whale, walrus, seal, deer, bear, ptar-migan, duck, and the like. It is not a little remarkable that persons afflictedwith scurvy seem madly inclined to salt provisions, which they know to be intheir case absolute poisons. They
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