76 Letter to Chapel. lortobcr, isei. 



Some weeks after this, Hall wrote to his friend, the captain of tlu; 

 Monticello, at Depot Island : 



I exchanged tent for snow-house, and have now been in the igloo sixty days, 

 and all the time as comfortable as I ever was in winter in my life. You would b<- 

 (juite interested in takinjj;- a wallc through my winter quarters; one nuiiu Ujloo ibi 

 myself and Eskimo children (Ebierbing and Too-koo-li-too), and three igloon, all 

 Joined to the main, for store-houses. A low, crooked passage-way of some 50 feet 

 in length, made of snow, leads into our residence, which, as you will know from 

 the word igloo, means a snow-house; its shape is hemispherical. 1 never before 

 knew any Eskimos so provident as this tribe or clan I am wintering with. I doul )t 

 not they have four hundred or more of reindeer, killed last summer, on deposit 

 within the distance of a circle of 20 miles in diameter. We are now living on 

 polar-bear and walrus meat. Five polar bears, some musk-oxen, a great many 

 l)artridges, and four walruses have been killed since amving among the natives, 

 besides a lartre number of reindeer. 



