HOW THEIR HOUSES ARE BUILT. 3I 



and cut down through it so as to take off 

 about a third, what is left will represent 

 the bed, as in illustration which, you see, 

 occupies nearly the whole of the room. 

 Curious as it may seem, this bed is also 

 built of snow, but enough reindeer robes, 

 bear and musk-ox skins are placed over 

 it to keep the warmth of the body from 

 melting the bed. 



If with a lead-pencil you draw a con- 

 tinuous spiral line on the egg-shell, far 

 enough apart so that there will be four 

 or five lines from bottom to top directly 

 above each other, and then if you draw 

 lines about twice as far apart as these 

 almost horizontal ones, but broken so as 

 to represent brick-work, each little block 

 that you thus represent is a snow-block 

 of which the igloo is built. The real 

 snow-blocks are about three feet long, 



