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finally searched inside
and wrote for my veil
and found it.
My bow cord this
weat later, parental
and maternal!
6 P.M.
The wind has just reached
here. Can hardly see my
men building their snow-
houses only a few yards away.
Would like to remain in
this ig-loo for the night now
that I am comfortably settled
but cannot desert my own
party.
7 P.M.
All in and at home again,
Wow! what a storm. And
help the poor dogs - 120 of
them cuddled up with the
wind and drift a fairly
buzzing over their backs!
No one knows and could
not realize if told, unless an
arctic man, how comfortable
a snow house can be. Life
in a tent on a night like
this would be a cold Hell!
which might just as well