The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-12-23
ARCTIC WEATHER.
The Severity Of the Summers Around
HudsOn's strait.

H00sOn's strait.
New York Herald.l
The temperature in Hudson's Strait
was much lower than in the bay, and we
felt the cold intensely. 1 began to I'M
agine that my acchmatization had not
been complete until I noticed that the
Inuits who came on board complained OF
the cold as much as We did. Indeed,
believe that one feels the cold IN an Arc
tic summer much more disastrous than
in the winter. The low temperature III
the straits is in all probability attributa-
BILE to the ice that is constantly there,
either local ice or the pack brought down
from Fox Channel by the wind and cur
rent. The great Grinnel glacier, on
Meta Incognito, which Captain Hill es-
mated to be 100 miles in extent, must
also have considerable effect upon the
climate. As we passed down toward
Resolution Island we could see this great
sea of ice from the deck of the vessel in
all its solemn grandeur, surrounded by
lofty peaks clad in their ever enduring
mantles of snow.
I did not go ashore while our vessel
lay at anchor at North Bay, for had no
anxiety to encounter the mosquitoes
which abound there, though not to the
| extent that makes life such burden as
| upon the eastern shores of Hudson's Bay.
| While our water casks were being filled
at Marble Island in the early part of Au-
| gust, Captain Baker and went into one
of the ships boats to the mainland, about
fifteen miles to the southwest, to secure
! lot of musk-ox skins and other articles of
trade at Kinnepatoo encampment there,
and though we spent but one night on
| shore, never endured such torture from
so small cause as the mosquitoes occa-
stoned us. Indeed, my hands and his,
for month afterward, were swollen and
sore from the venom of these abominable
little pests. They are not like civilized
mosquitoes, for no amount OF brushing
or tanning will keep them away. Their
sociability is unbounded, and you have
absolutely to push them off, a handful at
time, while their places are at once
filed by others, the air teeming with
them all the time. The natives keep
their tents filled with smoke from a slow
smoldering fire in the doorway, which is
the only plan to render them habitable
at all, but the remedy is only one degree
better than the disease, as Captain Baker
remarked to me, with tears The only
relief from the torments is strong breeze
from the water, which carries them away;
but even then it is not safe to seek shell
ter in the lee of tent, for there they
swarm and are as vigorous in their at
tacks as during calm. The men wear
musquito-net hoods over their heads and
shoulders while in camp or hunting, and
the women and children live in the smoke
of their smoldering peat fires.
Be q Man.
Foolish spending is the father OF
poverty. Do not be ashamed of hard
work. Work, but work for half price
rather than be idle. Be your own master,
and do not let society OF fashion swallow
you up individually coat and boots.
Do not eat up OF wear out all you can
earn. Compel you selfish body to spare
something for profits saved. Be stingy
to your own appetite, but merciful fol
others necessities Help others, and
ask not for yourselves. See that you are
proud, too. Let your pride be of the
, right kind. Be too proud to be lazy; toe
proud to give up without conquerine
J every difficulty; too proud to be in com.
pany that you cannot keep up within ex.
penses; too proud to be stingy.