m of securing comfort and food for her little party. The
question of a warm shelter during these months of sweeping winds and
biting frost was solved for them by the aged chief Nepos-sok. He
furnished them with a winter igloo. An interesting type of home they
found it and one offering great comfort. An outer covering of walrus
skin was supported by tall poles set in a semicircle and meeting at the
top. The inside of this tepee-like structure was lined with a great
circling robe of long-haired deerskin. The hair on these winter skins
was two inches long and matted thick as felt. When this lining had
been hung, a floor of hand-hewn boards was built across the rear side
of the inclosure. This floor, about six by eight feet, was covered
with a deerskin rug, over which were thrown lighter robes of soft fawn
skin and out-of-season fox skins. Above this floor were hung curtains
of deerskin. This sleeping room became a veritable box of long-haired
deerskins. When it was completed the girls found it, with a seal oil
lamp burning in it, warm and cozy as a steam-heated bedroom.

"Who could dream of anything so comfortable in a wilderness like this?"
murmured Lucile before falling asleep in their new home on the first
night.

Phi was given a place in the chief's sleeping room.

The space in the igloo before the girls' sleeping room was given over
to stores. It was used too as kitchen and dining room. Here, by a
snapping fire of dwarf willows, the three of them sat on the edge of
the sleeping room floor and munched hardtack or dipped baked beans from
tin cans.

The problem of securing a variety of food was a difficult one. The
supply from the ship was found to be over-abundant in certain lines and
woefully lacking in others: plenty of beans and sweet corn in cans,
some flour and baking powder but no lard or bacon; some frozen and
worthless potatoes; plenty of jelly in glasses; a hundred pounds of
sugar. So it ran. Lucile was hard pressed to know how to cook with no
oven in which to do baking and with no lard for shortening.

She had been studying this problem for some time when one day she
suddenly exclaimed, "I have it!"

Drawing on her parka she hurried to the chief's igloo and asked for
seal oil. Gravely he poured a supply of dark liquid from a wooden
container into a tin cup.

Lucile put this to her lips for a taste. The next instant she with
great difficulty set the cup on the floor while all her face