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was intensely cold. and we had not felt it on acet. of exercise walking. When we started again after tea, I found I could Scarcely keep warm sitting on the [[?]] with two skin coats. We travelled until about sundown, having only made about half the distance between [[Crepast?]] and this Station, and camped on the bank of the [[protok?]] convenient to plenty of dry wood. This proved probably the coldest night ever spent in the open air by any of the [[?]] employees, having been within one degree of the greatest cold, observed by Dr. Kane in his Artic expedition (his observation being 69 degrees below zero, and ours 68 degrees). Even at this intense degree of cold I observed that the native drivers slept soundly in their fur [[?]]. not appearing to know that it was very cold. I slept none keeping up the fire by heaping drywood on which we had collected in the evening. I roused the men at 1/2 past 2 o'clock- they made tea, boiled deer meat of which we made breakfast with hard bread, then started about 3.30 a.m. We ^[[all]] had the greatest difficulty in keeping from freezing; some were frozen slightly, notwithstanding every precaution. Fingers, toes, ears, and noses suffered some