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Rh thankful that they had been half suffocated by their cloaks, which had been used to blindfold them—at least they now served to wrap them up. Small evils make the worst part of great ones: it is so much easier to endure misfortune than to bear an inconvenience. Captain Franklin, half frozen on the Arctic shores, would not grumble one tithe so much as an elderly gentleman sitting in a draught.