PREPARING FOR WINTER 
carpentering, also interpreting, barbering, 
tailoring, dog-training, and chasing Esquimos 
out of my quarters. The Esquimos have the 
run of the ship and get everywhere except into 
the Commander's cabin, which they have been 
taught to regard as "The Holy of Holies." 
With the help of a sign which tersely pro- 
claims "No Admittance," painted on a board 
and nailed over the door, they are without 
much difficulty restrained from going in. 
The Commander's stateroom is a state room. 
He has a piano in there and a photograph of 
President Roosevelt; and right next door he 
has a private bath-room with a bath-tub in it. 
The bath-tub is chock-full of impedimenta of 
a much solider quality than water, but it is to 
be cleared out pretty soon, and every morning 
the Commander is going to have his cold- 
plunge, if there is enough hot water. 
There is a general rule that every member 
of the expedition, including the sailors, must 
take a bath at least once a week, and it is won- 
derful how contagious bathing is. Even the 
Esquimos catch it, and frequently Charley has 
to interrupt the upward development of some 
ambitious native, who has suddenly perceived 
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