Where a person would ordinarily tie ropes to pegs driven into the ground – we simply wet the ends of the ropes & let them freeze down on the river ice, which they only took a few seconds to do.
Scraping away the snow from inside the tent, we banked it up around the outside, to prevent draught. We next felled a spruce tree over the bank, so that it fell as conveniently as possible – trimmed off the branches & laid them to sleep on. We had a small collapsible stove which we rested on two iron rods about 2 feet long. After the stove had been burning for a while, there
