"ness for her poor disabled husband. Her devotion to him is as high as any thing of the kind that we see among our own people. Paddlak was an ex- cellent hunter before his eyes were injured, and the family is counted a fine family in the tribe. Dr. Hunt discredits the story about the freezing of the cornea and says that the case looks to him like one of snow blindness. 9 January. Sunday. Clear and cloudless overhead but the fierce S.E. wind which be- gan to rage between 4 & 5 this morn- ing is driving icy snow particles be- fore it and making the lowlying air thick with them. The storm must be terrible on the ice cap; it is one of the most severe, if not quite the most severe that we have