It is certainly the most convenient and efficient door for these conditions that has ever been invented.
"Whilst the side walls of the hut were being fixed, others proceeded to fill the interstices between the stones of the end walls with snow.
As this was very powdery and would not bind well, we eventually had to supplement it with the only spare blanket and an overcoat.

All this work was very hard on our frost-bitten fingers, and materials were very limited.
"At last all was completed and we were invited to bring in our sodden bags, which had been lying out in the drizzling rain for several hours; for the tents and boats that had previously sheltered them had all been requisitioned to form our new residence.
"We took our places under Wild's direction.

There was no squabbling for best places, but it was noticeable that there was something in the nature of a rush for the billets up on the thwarts of the boats.
"Rickenson, who was still very weak and ill, but very cheery, obtained a place in the boat directly above the stove, and the sailors having lived under the 'Stancomb Wills' for a few days while she was upside down on the beach, tacitly claimed it as their own, and flocked up on to its thwarts as one man.

There was one 'upstair' billet left in this boat, which Wild offered to Hussey and Lees simultaneously, saying that the first man that got his bag up could have the billet.

Whilst Lees was calculating the pros and cons Hussey got his bag, and had it up just as Lees had determined that the pros had it.