bones built into the walls for the [93] purpose. Above the inner opening of the tunnel-like entrance passage was a space about thirty by thirty- six inches in dimensions in the wall of the igloo is left for a window. This space is filled in with strips of seal intestine sewed together, the membrane being translucent enough to admit light sufficient for the inmates. A peep hole an inch across is left in the middle of the window. The furniture of the igloo is sim- plicity itself, consisting of a gen- eral or family bed-platform, oc- cupying the inner half of the room and a camp or stove plat- form at a slightly lower level on each side of the entrance. The flat- forms serve likewise as settees,