and the floor answers for a table [94] during the winter, where the frozen carcass of a seal or section of a narwhal is allowed to stay while the people hack pieces off from to eat, each at his own will. A well-built igloo, thoroughly banked up and over with snow, is a comfortable residence even in the coldest weath- ers; one or two large lamp-stoves giving plenty of light and heat. By eleven o'clock the tide had risen so much that the