It's well for people to get experience of the necessity of safeguarding their eyes.
The only thing which troubles me at present is the wear on our sledges owing to the hard ice.

No great harm has been done so far, thanks to the excellent wood of which the runners are made, but we can't afford to have them worn.

Wilson carried out a suggestion of his own to-night by covering the runners of a 9-ft.

sledge with strips from the skin of a seal which he killed and flensed for the purpose.

I shouldn't wonder if this acted well, and if it does we will cover more sledges in a similar manner.