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found. There was nothing for it but to get something 

 built up of stone. We quarried stone in the debris at 

 the bottom of the cliff, and got together as much as 

 we could. The only quarrying implement we had 

 was a runner that had been cut off a hand-sledge ; but 

 our two hands were what we had to use most. We 

 worked away during the night. What we had at first only 

 intended to be a shelter from the wind grew, little b)' 

 little, into four walls ; and we now kept at it until we had 

 finished a small hut. It was nothing very wonderful, 







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WE liUILD OUR FIRST HUT 



Heaven knows, not long enough for a man of my height 

 to lie straight inside — I had to stick my feet out at the 

 door — and just broad enough to admit of our lying side 

 by side and leave room for the cooking apparatus. It 



