everywhere in the at island and and it was of unusual excellence at cape also at herald and islands water supplied by the was occasionally used during the but as it was from the main without it had that peculiar flavor which rendered it unfit for purposes the articles of food consisting of the regular to which had been added i and the usual such as i l and were of good quality and kept remarkably well some butter in barrels being as good on our return as on the day we left frequent opportunities also occurred to get fish and game the being varied from time to time with salmon and ducks eggs of which great quantities were found on the islands seal bear and these articles proved not only an change from the regular but use was followed by a sense of well being and by improved the ordinary clothing was with a coat of skin seal skin trousers and a foot covering similar to that worn by the over an ordinary pair of stockings were drawn a pair of with the hair turned in the foot being next thrust into an boot of seal skin into the bottom of which a small quantity of straw was as a non conductor and the whole secured by after the manner of a this answered the purposes of warmth and comfort but the effect was anything but picturesque as the foot resembled a extremity that some hospital nurse had endeavored to in a beyond the summary obtained from the signal station at saint michael s e are no extended weather observations to report in regard to any fixed i for the reason that the ship seldom remained longer than a few days at a time in any one place and it was o to get any definite information from the natives whose knowledge in this respect does not extend beyond noticing whether the is great or little during the winter as regards the weather during the past season there is a marked contrast when compared to that experienced on the s former voyage the sea was from ice a fact doubtless owing to the preceding mild winter and other causes but the number of fine days was few and a series of and snow storms continued throughout the summer even as late as july the were covered with snow and hail and a bitter cold wind penetrated of steamer in the ocean our winter in opposition to this was the temperature of july when the while the above is true of the weather in the more northern part of the we found it in sound later in the season much than it was at a corresponding date of the previous year in the latter part of june at saint michael s we found the sun almost overpowering although the but p why this should exist between the sensation of heat as experienced by the human body and the actual temperature as revealed by the we are not prepared to say all that we know from writers on the subject is that the sensations of heat and cold are relative and not absolute in different among the in for instance the opposite condition is often noticed a disagreeable sensation of cold not indicated by the being one of the experiences of in that part of the world the cold is keen and penetrating with the standing at but p an excellent distinction is that which these phenomena as physical cold and cold the former indicating that revealed by the the latter that not indicated by instruments many travellers have noticed this relative sensation of cold as well as the and even a certain degree of comfort with which they can expose themselves to a low temperature which would be attended by serious in a more southern dr relates that in he went swimming in a pool of water on the of an and the captain of a new has frequently gone swimming off the coast of taking advantage of one of these warm days i took a plunge into the icy water with no such motive however as that of nor did i like have the after it on the contrary a swim of no great discomfort was followed by a reaction the actual rise of temperature that follows upon in a cold atmosphere or upon first entering into a cold bath is not one of the least curious phenomena of the function of the nor is the busy activity of the and the of the food within the canal which accounts for the source of the heat of such animals as and the birds a subject to be passed by by what physical and laws can we explain this this action of the in the of energy sufficient to supply bodily heat to such animals as the seal and the whale and enable them by remarkable to withstand the extreme cold of the does the of the whale and of the duck enable them to combine a greater quantity of with and thereby act as a source of heat or is the function of the liver the chief source by what means does the energy yielding material become change l into actual energy f does the nervous system acting as a force like the in a steam engine remove or to the of into energy or do all the internal work of the animal all the mechanical labor of the internal muscular with their accompanying and the labor of the nervous and other a certain amount of heat and thus account for the special function of the foregoing with many others suggested themselves on hearing the statements of and hunters with reference to the sensation produced by the blood while handling the bodies of recently killed animals and it occurred to me that a series of observations something after the manner of the experiments of dr in connection with the 