LIFE IN HIGH LATITUDES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1934, 27 November 1884, Page 4

LIFE IN HIGH LATITUDES.

A private interview \i ith Lieut. Greely at; Kts Former home, says a wiiter in the Medical Recoid, has enabled us to oh tain a clear insight into the physiological ami pathological effects of prolonged lesidence in the Polar regions. He as certiinetl that such sojurn, by inhabitants of warmer climates who are in good physical trim, is for a brief teim of years compatible with a high state of all the organio functions, u lule there is entire freedom from diseased manifestations of every kind ; but there is a decided limit to the endurance by Europeans and Americans of such e\ tieme prolonged cold. The seventy of the second winter was found by the partysomewh.it hauler to bear. The third long Arctic night, iv which the thermometer was never less than 3 deg. below zero, and much of the time (low n to 40 or 50 below, would, under the most favourable circumstances, have been a painful season to the party. Could the party, however, have had plenty of food, and full and good shelter, they would undoubtedly have all been living at this day. As man can live amid intense surrounding cold only by keeping his internal temperature at about 98Wcg. F-, Lieutenant Greely remarked that breathing air of such intense coldnoss had something of the effect produced by bieathwg pure oxygen. As for pulmonaiy troubles, he heaid no complaint of them while the party was at tfoit Conger, in Lady Franklin Bay, at a htitudc of about 82 deg., where the first two years were spent; even simple catanhs weie unknown, the only thing from which the men suffered being occasional rheumatism and stiffness of the muscles and joints. . . The party had ferocious appetities during all this sojurn in the North, each man eating with relish three meals of animal food and two lunches every day, and craving fatß, though not to the extent ■which some Arctic exploiers report. Not even when the thermometer marked GO deg below zero did those men indulge in crude blubber or tallow candles, which tradition has designated as the customary food of Arctic voyagers. Canned meats, of which they had an abundance during the fust two years, and a stake or mgout from the walrus, sell, or l'okr beir, were prized as the essential conditions of well being. As for spirituous liquois, they wero used with gieat model ation, and doled out to the members of the expedition as occasion seemed to demand, and only when some niuibual exoition or exposure brought cxtraoidmaiy fatigue or prostration ; as a means to fortify the system against cold, or biace it up for forced nnrches, u lusky, rum, and other alcoholic stimulants weio regaided as a little benefit.

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