Then the three men ate their supper.

A very little wine was left in the gourd which Garratt Skinner had carried on his back, and he filled it up with snow and thrust it inside his shirt that it might melt the sooner.
"You have your brandy flask, Wallie, but be sparing of it.

Brandy will warm you for the moment, but it leaves you more sensitive to the cold than you were before.

That's a known fact.

And don't drink too much of this snow-water.