ACROSS THE MOVING ICE 
188 
around until it blew from the west, without dimin¬ 
ishing. We had a small tent with us and to save 
time we were in the habit of using this as the roof 
for our igloo, weighting it down with snow-blocks 
and a rifle, pemmican tins and snowshoes, and 
covering the whole with snow to make it tight. 
When the wind changed it whipped off this canvas 
roof and the first thing we knew we were covered 
with snow. We turned out in the darkness and 
looked for our things which were almost completely 
buried. 
It was not a restful night and when daylight 
came we were glad to be on the march again. 
Shortly after we started one of the dogs broke his 
trace and got away. Fortunately we caught him 
before he had gone far. Some of the dogs were 
docile and when we unharnessed them would not 
stray away but would let us harness them up again 
when the time came; others would tiy to evade us 
and we had to coax them in with pemmican be¬ 
fore we could catch them. 
Being so often adrift on running ice, as we were, 
is really a wild experience that is hard on dogs and 
ours were so tired that with two exceptions they 
did not work well. When we came to open water 
it took a great deal of urging to get them to jump 
across; often we had to unharness them and throw 
them across, one after another. I had a bamboo 
