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Title: Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22
Year: 1823 (1820s)
Authors: Franklin, John, Sir, 1786-1847. dn
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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atwe succeeded in pacifying them. The old woman began to feelbetter, and her faith in the medicine was renewed. While speaking of this family, I may remark that the daughter,whom we designated Green-stockings from her dress, is consideredby her tribe to be a great beauty. Mr. Hood drew an accurateportrait of her, although her mother was averse to her sitting for it.She was afraid, she said, that her daughters likeness would inducethe great Chief who resided in England to send for the original.The young lady, however, was undeterred by any such fear. Shehas aheady been an object of contest between her countrymen, andalthough under sixteen years of age, has belonged successively totwo husbands, and would probably have been the wife of manymore, if her mother had not required her services as a nurse. The weather during this month, w as the coldest we experiencedduring our residence in America. The thermometer sunk on oneoccasion to 57° below zero, and never rose beyond 6° above it; the
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OF THE POL\R SEA. 255 moan for the montli was —29.7°. J)uring these intense colds, how-ever, the atmosphere was generally ciilni, and the wood-cutters andothei-s went about their ordinary occu))ati()ns without using anyextraordinary preciiutions, yet without feeling any bad effects.They had their rein-deer shirts on, leathern mittens lined withblankets, and furred caps; but none of them used any defence for theface, nor did they need to do so. Indeed we have already mentionedthat the heat is abstracted most rapidly from the body during strongl)reezes, and most of those who have perishetl from cold in thiscoiuitrv, have fallen a sacrifice to their being overtaken on a lakeor other unsheltered place, by a storm of wind. The intense coldswere, however, detrimental to us in another way. The trees frozeto their very centres, and became as hard as stones, and more dif-ficult to cut. Some of the axes were broken daily, and i)y the endof the month we had only one left that was fit for feUi

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