NEARING THE HUT. 
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to cut out blocks of snow to close up the entrance 
to the hut. I carried in our blubber-lamp, food, and 
bedding, unharnessed the dogs, and took them into the 
same shelter. We were barely housed before the storm 
broke upon us. 
NEARING THE HUT. 
“Here, completely excluded from the knowledge of 
things without, we spent many miserable hours. We 
could keep no note of time, and, except by the whirring 
of the drift against the roof of our kennel, had no 
information of the state of the weather. We slept, 
and cooked coffee, and drank coffee, and slept, and 
