to start at four in the afternoon, travel till
ten P. M., _breakfast_ then, tent and rest four hours; travel four more,
tent, dine, and sleep nine hours. This secured sleep, when the sun was
the highest and most trying to the eyes. The distances accomplished with
this equipment are truly surprising.

Each man, of course, is dressed as warmly as flannel, woollen cloth,
leather, and seal-skin will dress him. For such long journeying, the
study of boots becomes a science, and our authorities are full of
discussions as to canvas or woollen, or carpet or leather boots, of
strings and of buckles. When the time "to tent" comes, the pikes are
fitted for tent-poles, and the tent set up, its door to leeward, on the
ice or snow. The floor-cloth is laid for the carpet. At an hour fixed,
all talking must stop. There is just room enough for the party to lie
side by side on the floor-cloth. Each man gets into a long felt bag,
made of heavy felting literally nearly half an inch thick. He brings
this up wholly over his head, and buttons himself in. He has a little
hole in it to breathe through. Over the felt is sometimes a brown
holland bag, meant to keep out moisture. The officer lies farthest in
the tent,--as being next the wind, the point of hardship and so of
honor. The cook for the day lies next the doorway, as being first to be
called. Side by side the others lie between. Over them all Mackintosh
blankets with the buffalo-robes are drawn, by what power this deponent
sayeth not, not knowing. No watch is kept, for there is little danger of
intrusion. Once a whole party was startled by a white bear smelling at
them, who waked one of their dogs, and a droll time they had of it,
springing to their arms while enveloped in their sacks. But we remember
no other instance where a sentinel was needed. And occasionally in the
journals the officer notes that he overslept in the morning, and did not
"call the cook" early enough. What a passion is sleep, to be sure, that
one should oversleep with such comforts round him!

Some thirty or forty parties, thus equipped, set out from the "Resolute"
while she was under Captain Kellett's charge, on various expeditions. As
the journey of Lieutenant Pim to the "Investigator" at Banks Land was
that on which turned the great victory of her voyage, we will let that
stand as a specimen of all. None of the others, however, were undertaken
at so early a period of the year, and, on the other hand, several othe