to close up every chink, and a low door was cut through the walls
with a knife. A bed-place was next formed and neatly faced up
with slabs of snow, which was then covered with a thin layer of pine
branches, to prevent them from melting by the heat of the body.
At each end of the bed a pillow of snow was erected to place a lamp
upon, and lastly, a porch was built before the door, and a piece of
clear ice was placed in an aperture cut in the wall for a window.
The purity of the material of which the house was framed, the
elegance of its construction, and the translucency of its walls, which
transmitted a very pleasant light, gave it an appearance far superior
to a marble building, and one might survey it with feelings somewhat
akin to those produced by the contemplation of a Grecian temple,
reared by Phidias; both are triumphs of art, inimitable in their
kinds.
Annexed there is a plan of a complete Esquimaux snow-house
and kitchen and other apartments, copied from a sketch made by
Augustus, with the names of the different places affixed. The only
fire-place is in the kitchen, the heat of the lamps sufficing to keep
the other apartments warm :—
A . Ablokeyt, steps.
B . Pahlceuk, porch.
C. Wudl-leek, passage.
D . Haddnceweek,for the reception of
the sw eepings of the house.
E . G . Tokhewok, ante-cham ber, or
passage.
F . Annmraartou'eck.
H . Eegah, cooking-house.
I. Eegah-natkah, passage.
K . Keidgewack, for piling wood
upon.
M . Keek foot,fire-place b u ilto f stone.
L . Keek kloweyt, cooking side.
N . Eegloo, house.
O . Iiattack, door.
P . Nattamck, clear space in the
apartm ent,
a . d . Eekput, a kind of shelf, where
the candle s ta n d s; and
b. c. a p it, w here they throw their
bones, and other offal of their
provision.
Q. Eegl-luck, bed-place.
S. bed-place, as on th e o ther side.
R . Eegleetecet, bed-side or sittingplace.
T. Kietgn-nok, sm all pantry.
U . Hoergloack, Store-house for provisions.
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