When autumn and winter approached, they choose a good site and build a winter house, continuing their journey in the spring or summer as soon as the ice permits. Journeys along the west coast were of course easier and more rapid, as the drift ice did not there present impediments. Their minds were enlivened, interest in hunting was stimulated,and skill was developed in many different ways, to say nothing of the fact that the frequent changing of hunting grounds brought much more game within their reach. No wonder, then, that the Greenlanders fairest dreams of happiness were associated with the woman-boat and the tent. All the meat goes up in the extreme bows, away from the dogs, who are on the floor in the middle.
Tent poles go on top, holding everything down.
Emmanuely, the invalid, lay on top of the load. Enock was right in the stern with his steering oar, and the rest of the rowers well up in the bows. The umiak hardly went down at all in spite of this load.