Outing . see nothing in the white swirlbeyond the nose of the komatik. Sud-denly the pace slackened, the drift grewslightly thinner, and we found ourselvesin the edge of a patch of low, sparsewoods on a lee shore. Fearing that even if we should be ableto disentangle the dogs again and go onit would only be to get hopelesslysmashed up on some barren and exposedpoint where, if the gale continued, thelack of shelter would mean inevitablefreezing, we worked our way a littlefarther in among the scattered, stuntedtrees, unharnessed the dogs, and set towork to build a shelter. This we didby making a
Outing . see nothing in the white swirlbeyond the nose of the komatik. Sud-denly the pace slackened, the drift grewslightly thinner, and we found ourselvesin the edge of a patch of low, sparsewoods on a lee shore. Fearing that even if we should be ableto disentangle the dogs again and go onit would only be to get hopelesslysmashed up on some barren and exposedpoint where, if the gale continued, thelack of shelter would mean inevitablefreezing, we worked our way a littlefarther in among the scattered, stuntedtrees, unharnessed the dogs, and set towork to build a shelter. This we didby making a bough shed in the lee oftwo green spruces, unloading the koma-tik and bracing it against the leewardside of our crude shelter as a prop againstthe force of the gale. After a hasty at-tack on the lunch of cocoa and friedpartridge we had brought with us—andnever was a meal more welcome—wespent the remainder of the afternooncutting firewood for the bitter nightahead. At dark we started our fire on a dou-.
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