Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . HusivV Family, Backs River. Ma\vr-en-ik-yuak. Husky Camp at foot of Baker Lake. LIFE IN AN ESKIMO CAMP 77 of other iglus inhabited by the different parties we met,and it seems to me that the authors of such statementshave been singularly unfortunate in their experiences. Ihave found no such condition of things. I took the temperatures of different iglus all throughthe winter. For the first day of its occupation a newly-built iglu remains cold. When the thermometer outsideregisters any temperature from —20^ to —50° Fahr., thetemperature inside is on
Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . HusivV Family, Backs River. Ma\vr-en-ik-yuak. Husky Camp at foot of Baker Lake. LIFE IN AN ESKIMO CAMP 77 of other iglus inhabited by the different parties we met,and it seems to me that the authors of such statementshave been singularly unfortunate in their experiences. Ihave found no such condition of things. I took the temperatures of different iglus all throughthe winter. For the first day of its occupation a newly-built iglu remains cold. When the thermometer outsideregisters any temperature from —20^ to —50° Fahr., thetemperature inside is only about 10^ higher ; sometimesnot so much. Next day, however, when the iglu hassettled somewhat, and more snow has been thrown onthe roof, the temperature is brought to about 24 or 26°{ 6° or 8^ of frost), and here it remains, the temperatureoutside having little or no effect on that inside. To aperson sitting still in a newly-erected iglu with the ther-mometer at 10^ (or from 20 to 25° of frost), the temperatureappears to be cool, rather too cool for perf
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