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BUILDING IGLOE. 
out. I have determined to borrow a lesson from our 
Esquimaux neighbors, and am turning the brig into an 
iglo'6. 
“ The sledge is to bring us moss and turf from 
wherever the men can scrape it. This is an excellent 
non-conductor; and when we get the quarter-deck 
GATHERING MOSS. 
well padded with it we shall have a nearly cold-proof 
covering. Down below we will enclose a space some 
eighteen feet square, and pack it from floor to ceiling 
with inner walls of the same material. The floor itself 
we are calking carefully with plaster of Paris and 
common paste, and will cover it when we have done 
with Manilla oakum a couple of inches deep, and a 
