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snow-drift which might have prevented us from 
reaching from one hut to another. The dwelling hut 
had three separate doors to its centre, one to a kind 
of hall four feet wide, and two towards the inner 
dwelling; the doors moving inwards so as to enable 
us to dig ourselves out in case great snow-drift should 
block the way. At both sides of this four-feet hall I 
CAMP RIDLEY IN SPRING. 
caused a small room to be made. On the right-hand 
of the entrance an instrument room and developing 
room for photographs; on the left-hand side a small 
room which I originally intended for my own use, but 
which I later gave to Mr. Evans as a taxidermist 
room. These two small rooms were lined with wool 
and fur, and were approached through small vertically 
sliding trap-doors, some two feet from the floor. The 
