186 ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANADA. 
of topick is that of a cone, very similar to an Indian 
tepee, but it is sometimes rectangular and built with 
vertical walls about four feet high. 
The furniture of these summer dwellings is simple, 
consisting usually of a few skins lying about the rocky 
floor, to serve as seats in the daytime and bedding at 
night; two or three seal-skin sacks of oil, two shallow 
stone vessels used as lamps, a few hunting implements, 
some little deer-skin bags, used as ladies’ work-baskets ; 
several coils of seal-skin. line, a few pairs of moccasins 
scattered about, and at one side of the door the some- 
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what repulsive remains of a carcass consumed at the 
last meal. Such is the Eskimo summer house. 
His winter dwelling in the snow is more interesting 
and curious. It is called an “igloe,” and is built in the 
form of a dome with large blocks of snow. The com- 
mon size of: the dwelling apartment of an igloe is 
twelve feet in diameter, and eight feet in height. This 
is approached by a succession of three or four smaller 
domes, connected by low archways, through which one 
has to crouch in order to pass. 
The innermost archway opening into the dwelling 
apartment is about three feet high, and as one enters he 
steps down a foot or more to the level of the floor of 
