On reaching camp, whether tent or snow igloo, the kitchen box is set down inside, the top of the box is turned up and keeps the heat of the stove from melting the wall of the igloo or burning the tent; the hinged front of the box is turned down and forms a table.

The two cooking pots are filled with pounded ice and put on the stoves; when the ice melts one pot is used for tea, and the other may be used to warm beans, or to boil meat if there is any.
Each man has a quart cup for tea, and a hunting knife which serves many purposes.

He does not carry anything so polite as a fork, and one teaspoon is considered quite enough for a party of four.

Each man helps himself from the pot--sticks in his knife and fishes out a piece of meat.
The theory of field work is that there shall be two meals a day, one in the morning and one at night.

As the days grow short, the meals are taken before light and after dark, leaving the period of light entirely for work.