This packing-box village was christened Hubbardville, in honor of General Thomas H.Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic Club.

When the boxes which had served as a bed platform in the Eskimo quarters of the _Roosevelt's_ forward deck were removed, the place was swept and scrubbed; then a bed platform was built of boards, divided into sections for the various families and screened in front by curtains.

Under the bed platform was an open space, where the Eskimos could keep their cooking utensils and other personal belongings.

The fastidious reader who is shocked at the idea of keeping frying-pans under the bed should see an Eskimo family in one of their native houses of stone and earth, eight feet across, where meat and drink, men, women, and children are crowded indiscriminately for month upon month in winter.
We next landed about eighty tons of coal, so that, in case we should have to live in the box houses, there would be plenty of fuel.

At that time of the year it was not very cold.