It is only when they are traveling, as sometimes during the moonlit period of the month, that they live in the snow igloos, which three good Eskimos can build in an hour or two, and which we built at the end of every day's march on our sledge journey to the Pole.

In summer they live in the tupiks, or skin tents.

The stone houses are permanent, and a good one will last perhaps a hundred years, with a little repairing of the roof in summer.

Igloos are found in groups, or villages, at intervals along the coast from Cape York Bay to Anoratok.

As the people are nomadic, these permanent dwellings belong to the tribe, and not to individuals, constituting thus a crude sort of arctic socialism.