134 The Igloo Made on the Journey. [January, js65. 



Avhile one of Ou-e-his wives shoveled out the snow-drift from the main 

 hilt, the other increased the thickness of its walls by banking up more 

 snow on the outside. Hall's offered assistance to the women in this 

 work of using the por-kut, (snow-shovel,) was refused by the husband. 

 The drift being thrown out of the way, Ou-e-la then entered and made 

 a bed-platform on each side of the igloo, dividing the two by a trench 

 a foot in depth. 



GROUND-PLAN OF IGLOO. 

 January 1), 1805. Scale, i"-12". 



The women and children having then crowded in, made up the 

 beds by spreading over the platforms their furred deer-skins, and lit 

 tlic tliicc firo-lamps to melt snow for the thirsty. The men on enter- 

 ing carefully Ix-at tlieir jackets and Jcodlin, (outside breeches,) with their 

 ar-ni/r-fars^ to ])rev<^iit the warmth of the igloo during the night from 



