62 behind it so that it shone way out over the bay. This makes it light as a summer day in front of the house and is fine for loading kornetiks. The Eskimo kids seem to think it was put up especially for their benefit, and have been play- ing football on the ice in the light from it, and sliding on their small sleds down the bank ever since the light was turned on. I saw today that the ice at the ice foot had broken off the ground wires for the wireless, and this is another reason for our inability to hear anything over the wireless, altho even with the best of ground I could not hope to hear any long distance with the low aerial we have. Thu Dec 4-13 Today I began making some small oil stoves out of corned- beef-hash-cans. Fri Dec 5-13 Working on two oil stoves all day. Hal, Fity & Tank getting ready