He got to work at once, and will be a splendid help, freeing the scientific people of all dirty work.

Anton and Demetri are both most anxious to help on all occasions; they are excellent boys.
_Thursday, January_ 19 .-- The hut is becoming the most comfortable dwelling-place imaginable.

We have made unto ourselves a truly seductive home, within the walls of which peace, quiet, and comfort reign supreme.
Such a noble dwelling transcends the word 'hut,' and we pause to give it a more fitting title only from lack of the appropriate suggestion.

What shall we call it?
'The word "hut" is misleading.

Our residence is really a house of considerable size, in every respect the finest that has ever been erected in the Polar regions; 50 ft.