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the temperature in winter is always below freezing-point, as a 

 rule from — 10° to — 20° С , so that the blocks of snow in- 

 tended for drinking-water can lie there without melting. The 

 lamps draw the air upwards, which is thus warmed and streams 

 out over the raised platform, where the temperature as a rule 

 is so high, that one cannot stand having clothes on and 

 quickly follows the example of the Eskimos and takes them 

 all off. Under the roof the air is, to put it plainly, very hot. 

 If we sit on the edge of the platform with the feet resting on 

 the floor, they will be surrounded by air at ca. — 10°, whilst 

 the head reaches up into a tropical temperature. Only the 

 stomach is in a suitable and pleasant warmth, which explains 

 why no other position can be maintained for a long time in 

 here except lying down on the raised platform. However warm 

 it may become here, the air is nevertheless always pure and 

 good, and — in contrast to the atmosphere in many Danish- 

 Greenland houses — without smell. This is quite simply ex- 

 plained by the fact, that the fresh air always has unhindered 

 access to the house through the entrance-hole, where there is 

 no door". In contrast to which we now Qnd a door in the 

 Danish-Eskimo houses, which as a rule closes the passage 

 inwards. 



Figs. 14 and 15 are two drawings by the eskimo woman 

 Alakrasina. The first represents the interior of the ordinary 

 winter-house with a main platform and two side-platforms, as 

 also the passage to the house and the outside structures in 

 front. On each of the side-platforms stands a large blubber- 

 lamp and at the side of this to the left a small lamp; a couple 

 of basins also stand on each of the side-platforms. 



Fig. 15 is of very great interest. Among a number of 

 winter-houses, which Alakrasina drew of her own accord in my 

 drawing-book, were two of this type, though I found no re- 

 presentative of them, either at Umanark or at Cape York. We 

 see here two winter-houses built together, so that they have a 



