If there is no igloo near them, they build one just as quickly as they can when they see the storm approaching, or, if there is not time for that, they have to make a dugout in a snow bank.
Thursday, the 26th of November, was proclaimed to be Thanksgiving Day in Grant Land.

For dinner we had soup, macaroni and cheese, and mince pie made of musk-ox meat.

During the December moon Captain Bartlett, with two Eskimos, two sledges, and twelve dogs, went out to scour the region between the ship and Lake Hazen for game.

Henson, with similar equipment, went to Clements Markham Inlet.

Borup, with seven Eskimos, seven sledges, and forty-two dogs, set out for Cape Colan and Cape Columbia.