HOW THEIR HOUSES ARE BUILT. 33 



igloos in the winter time serve them the 

 same use as tents wherever they travel* 

 the smaller kind taking them, if they are 

 industrious, but about an hour to build 

 no one, not even an Eskimo, being able 

 to live in a tent in the coldest weather of 

 these polar regions. 



Just' in front of the bed, and not much 

 higher, is the little door-way, where the 

 occupants enter the house. In order to 

 do so they must get down flat on their 

 hands and knees and crawl in. To 

 prevent the snow from the top of the 

 door-way brushing off and falling down 

 the neck and back, each Eskimo puts his 

 skin hood over his head before entering, 

 and just as soon as his shoulders are well 

 in the house he shoves the legs back and 

 begins to straighten up so as to prevent 

 running his nose square into the snow of 



