HOW THEIR HOUSES ARE BUILT. 39 



meat, and do not have too much hard 

 work to do, they will get as fat and saucy 

 and playful as your own dogs with three 

 meals a day. One of the very last 

 things you would imagine to be good for 

 them is the best food they get ; that is, 

 tough walrus hide, about an inch in 

 thickness, and as wiry as sole-leather. 

 Give your team of dogs a good me-al of 

 this before they start, take along a light 

 supply of it for them, and you can be 

 gone a couple of weeks on a trip ; when 

 you get back, feed them up well, and 

 they will be as fat and strong as ever in a 

 few days. 



But to return to the igloo. The blocks 

 of snow of which the house is made are, 

 it has been said, from six inches to a foot 

 in thickness ; but after the house is thus 

 made strong for a heavy man can climb 



