What I find so interesting is that despite of their naval experiences under harsh conditions, British Navy was very slow in adjusting and adapting what really work and what don't work in trying conditions. You think that the British Empire, which spanned the globe at that time, an empire that got millions of native people under their control and even adapted many things from them, would look their noses down at Arctic natives who have survived for thousands of years in that condition. It common sense but yet, the Royal Navy just missed it. It wasn't just racism that colored their judgment, but also arrogance, stupidity and blind complacency. In some bitter irony, the British were the simple minded uneducated ones.....while the Arctic natives were the ones with superior knowledge. Irony run thick doesn't it???