This latter, he explained, could be done much better with a mixture of blood and snow than with any other available material.

He furthermore intimated that he feared they might be overtaken by a blizzard before morning, in which case they could best defy it in a regularly built igloo.
All these reasons for delay seemed so good that the others accepted them, and the work outlined by Yim was immediately begun.

In cutting up the caribou, as in building the snow hut, Cabot, from lack of experience, could give but slight assistance, and, realising this, he made a proposal.
"Look here," he said.

"The wood we have brought along won't last long and I want a good fire to-night.

I also want to carry some of this meat to those poor wretches we have just left.