By means of the oars and thwarts as supports, the skin was then raised with the raw side up in tent form over the wall and boat, making shelter sufficient for us all to get under with comfort.
"Now let it storm, if it wants to!" cried Weymouth: "we've got a water-proof seal-skin at least!" An arch of stones, with our spider set in the top, was then built over the fire to protect it from the weather.
"How long will this walrus last for firewood, suppose ?" I asked.
"Oh! two or three days, for a guess," Donovan thought.
"After that, what ?" said Wade.
"It's no use to trouble ourselves about that now," said Kit: "the Bible expressly forbids it.

Besides, we've had trouble enough for one day.

I'm for turning in and having a nap." "Not much fun in turning in on a bare ledge, I fancy," Wade replied.
"We shall miss our mattresses." "A bare rock is a rather hard thing to bunk on, I do think," Raed remarked, peeping under the walrus-skin.

"If we were in Maine, now, we should qualify that with a 'shake-down' of spruce-boughs.

Didn't see any thing of the evergreen sort among the rocks, did you, Wash ?" We had not.