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Photograph by Donald B. MacMillan 



THE WINTER HOME OF THE SMITH SOUND NATIVE, THE ROCK IGLOO 



The sides are banked with sod, the roof is covered with grass and the summer tent, and 

 lastly with snow, making a very comfortable habitation. Access is gained by a tunnel, 

 some twelve feet in length, which leads to a hole in the floor. The window, which has the 

 appearance of a large striped flag hung against the rocks, is made of the intestines of the 

 seal or walrus. It is translucent, not transparent. 



the work would have been carried out as 

 planned. Even houses were built to shel- 

 ter the large contingent of seventy-five 

 men, women, and children. 



MEN CONSTANTLY ON THE MOVE 

 THROUGHOUT THE WINTER 



With the Arctic night now coming on, 

 the problem presented itself of how to 

 preserve the health and happiness and 



good spirits until the time of our depar- 

 ture out over the ice of the Polar Sea, 

 five months later. 



At this stage of the battle many a 

 leader has failed because he has not ap- 

 preciated the full value of work, and nec- 

 essarily out-of-door work, as shown by 

 oft-repeated statement in books on the 

 Arctic, such as: "No work can be done 

 during- the darkness of the Arctic win- 



