without being wrapped in furs, and a kind of mask of fur before my

face, with only a hole for breath, and two for sight: the little

daylight we had was for three months not above five hours a day,

and six at most; only that the snow lying on the ground

continually, and the weather being clear, it was never quite dark.

Our horses were kept, or rather starved, underground; and as for

our servants, whom we hired here to look after ourselves and

horses, we had, every now and then, their fingers and toes to thaw