JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



OF 



THE POLAR SEA. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



(continued.) 



Fort Enterprise — Mr. Back's Narrative of his Journey 

 to Chipewyan, and Return. 



The winter habitations of the Esquimaux, 

 who visit Churchill, are built of snow, and 

 judging from one constructed by Augustus 

 to-day, they are very comfortable dwellings. 

 Having selected a spot on the river, where 

 the snow was about two feet deep, and suf- 

 ficiently compact, he commenced by tracing 

 out a circle twelve feet in diameter. The 

 snow in the interior of the circle was next 



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