In the big drift he decided to make his house for the night.

It was an easy matter--a trick learned of the Eskimo.

With his belt-ax he broke through the thick crust of the drift, using care that the "door" he thus opened into it was only large enough for the entrance of his body.

Using a snowshoe as a shovel he then began digging out the soft interior of the drift, burrowing a two foot tunnel until he was well back from the door, where he made himself a chamber large enough for his sleeping-bag.

The task employed him less than an hour, and when his bed was made, and he stood in front of the door to his igloo, his spirits began to return.