Show Fir places IIC Sllow At the first glance snow does not look like a very nioroltltiR material a flipplice and yet I think I am nut mlelakn tu evyenit that every winter there are huudel101 lives built In first places mauoof this sutstaoce This la lose I surprising when we stop to think that In Iho part of America where this Is don liiu Icmfcraluie outdoors during the winter months seldom times as blab RO zero and Its queutly falls as low as forty or fifty Oe < 1 gross below About the end January or when the bun again appears obese fit huddle many families at the tw Uikimo villages nrar Point Borrow Iu AIb lean Their winter bullies and travel inland eavonlyn it one hundred < milts lo hunt reindeer along the upper waters of Iho large rivers that flow Into Ibo Arctic Ocean slat of Ibo point Here they encamp In large comfortable snow house usually dug out In solid snowdrift snow-drift Like the Eskimo winter tacuitt these are entered by means a loop low tunnel and opening out ot oneslJeof this tunnel there Is a fireplace built In the Cap Hrajlh village near our station A young man and his wife moved down from Point Harrow after winter bid met In and a there wn no accommodation for them 10 any 01 the permanent t wcoflen houses they built themselves alms buUrom bloc e of now aild rtotol1lt over with oil cloth 1 mol1o them u vltlt one afternoon after-noon end found the hours prod cold < and uncomfortable In ipltr of the large stone lamp that was burning nil the time the entrance tunnel was about ten feet lone at bu loll hand as you entered and close lo Ibo door was the fireplace Tills wan about two and a half feet Iqunre Slid neatly > I built of slabs of snow with e emcke hole at the lop and a stick stuck across at the proper height to hang a pot on When the lint fire Is built In such a fireplace there Is considerable slung of the outface of the snow but as soon Ihe fire Is allowed lo go cut Ibllfrtlz IOB bard glaze otlcowhlih afterwards melts only a very litllr Theo era Places are mod only foi nklllll as the Eskimci rely woolly on the oil lamra for warming Ibo dwelling John Murdoch In June Llpplnoili |