236 Monday December 28, 1914. Clear with high N E winds -21° The high wind did not blow in the early part of the day. At that time the temperature fell quite low. I continued building the igloo and to my satis-faction got it finished. As I took my time about the work I was able to make the inside very nice indeed. The bed platform is easily wide enough for four or five people and it is about a foot longer than I am. There is a place at each side for the others and foot space between. I was able to make the entry way quite low and the top of the door is at just the level of the bed plat-form. With this arrangement the igloo is quite warm. As I have built only two igloos I have not yet got over my surprise at the way snow blocks hang in the air. I suppose it does take a certain skill to put them up for I failed the first few times I tried. But today I got some rather large blocks to hang unit in space almost horizontally with nothing touching it except the next edge below and then belonging to a block which a mom-ent before had held me in suspense but it fell. But the strangest thing of all is the great number of minor points in the handling of the arms and the leaps which I should never have seen had I not tried it myself. But this I have found to be true of almost any work that results in some thing of value. And the realization makes me see even to look down on an honest worker when I go back into the world for each in his own way is a kind of master.