He and his companions lived an uneventful life under primitive conditions at the hut.

The weather was bad, and though the temperatures recorded were low, the young sea-ice continually broke away.

The blubber-stove in use at the hut seemed to have produced soot and grease in the usual large quantities, and the men and their clothing suffered accordingly.
The whites of their eyes contrasted vividly with the dense blackness of their skins.

Wild and Joyce had a great deal of trouble with their frost-bites.

Joyce had both feet blistered, his knees were swollen, and his hands also were blistered.