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National Geographic : 1920 Apr
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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Photograph by Donald B. MacMillan THE WINTER HOME OF THE SMITH SOUND NATIVE, TIlE ROCK IGLOO The sides are banked with sod, the roof is covered with grass and the summer tent, and lastly with snow, making a very comfortable habitation. Access is gained by a tunnel, some twelve feet in length, which leads to a hole in the floor. The window, which has the appearance of a large striped flag hung against the rocks, is made of the intestines of the seal or walrus. It is translucent, not transparent. the work would have been carried out as planned. Even houses were built to shel ter the large contingent of seventy-five men, women, and children. MEN CONSTANTLY ON TIHE MOVE THROUGHOUT THE WINTER With the Arctic night now coming on, the problem presented itself of how to preserve the health and happiness and good spirits until the time of our depar ture out over the ice of the Polar Sea, five months later. At this stage of the battle many a leader has failed because he has not ap preciated the full value of work, and nec essarily out-of-door work, as shown by oft-repeated statement in books on the Arctic, such as: "No work can be done during the darkness of the Arctic win- 306
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