d up the sledge when the
snow is soft. Thus one has on both a skate and a snowshoe at once. The
dogs' traces should be of skin and fastened with toggles or buttons to
the bowline. Dog food must be distributed along the komatik trail in
summer--though the people will make great sacrifices to feed "the
Doctor's team."

Clothing must be light; to perspire in cold weather is unpardonable,
for it will freeze inside your clothes at night. Fortunately warmth
depends only on keeping heat in; and we find an impervious, light,
dressed canvas best. The kossak should be made with, so to speak, no
neck through which the heat which one produces can leak out. The
headpiece must be attached to the tunic, which also clips tight round
the wrists and round the waist to retain the heat. The edges may be
bound with fur, especially about the hood, so as to be soft and tight
about the face, and to keep the air out. The Eskimo cuts his own hair
so as to fill that function. Light sealskin boots are best for all
weathers, but in very cold, dry seasons, deerskin dressed very soft
is warmer. The skin boot should be sewn with sinew which swells in
water and thus keeps the stitches water-tight. These skin boots are
made by the Eskimo women who chew the edges of the skin to make them
soft before sewing them with deer sinew. The little Eskimo girls on
the North Labrador coast are proficient in the art of chewing, as they
are brought up from childhood to help their mothers in this way, the
women having invariably lost their teeth at a very early age.

A light rifle should always be lashed on the komatik, as a rabbit, a
partridge, or a deer gives often a light to the eyes with the fresh
proteids they afford, like Jonathan's wild honey. In these
temperatures, with the muscular exercise required, my strictest of
vegetarian friends should permit us to bow in the House of Rimmon. One
day while crossing a bay I noticed some seals popping up their heads
out of the water beyond the ice edge. I had a fine leading dog bearing
the unromantic name of Podge, and pure white in colour. But he was an
excellent water dog, trained not only to go for birds, but to dive
under water for sunken seals. Owing to their increasing fat in winter,
seals as a rule float, though they invariably sink in summer. On this
particular occasion, having hitched up the team we crept out to the
ice edge, Podge following at my heels. Lying still on the ice, and
just occasionally lifting and