How we are sheltered; a geographical reader (1906)
Chamberlain, James Franklin, 1869-1943 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co.,ltd. · leaf 30
one long,unbroken night. When the Eskimo gets ready to build hiswinter home or igloo, he selects a place where thesnow is deep and firmly packed. With a longknife of bone he cuts a great block from thesnow, and throws it to one side. He then standsin the hole thus made, and cuts out other blocks.… … Fig. 8. — Building Igloos.From the Report of the National JIuseitm, 1901. A second row of blocks is placed upon the first,and so on, each circle being smaller than theone below it. At last only one great block isneeded to finish the igloo. Putting this last oneon is a little like putting a stopper…
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