oon as it was done they went to the large canoe, and lifting it
carried it away to the place Luka had found--a ridge of rock running
back at a right angle from the shore, with a perpendicular face some
twelve feet high. At one point there was a deep cleft in it, some eight
feet wide at the mouth and narrowing gradually in.

"Capital, Luka; we shall be as snug as possible here. Now, turn her over
and take her in."

The cleft was so deep that the stern of the boat was, when she was laid
down bow foremost, fully fifteen feet inside the entrance.

"Now it may blow as much as it likes," Godfrey said, "it won't hurt us
here. Now do you go and get some of the firewood. I will fetch some
skins from the canoe, and the sails."

After getting out some provisions, the cooking utensils, and a couple of
the candles, Godfrey returned to the boat. Then he made another journey
for some more skins and the two sails. By this time the wind was blowing
so fiercely that he could scarcely stagger along with his load. The sea
was covered with white heads, and the waves were breaking noisily
against the rocks. Luka had already brought up plenty of firewood, and
had thrown a large skin over the furs containing the frozen fish, and
piled stones on it to prevent its being blown away.

"Now, where will you put the fire?" he asked. "If you put it inside it
would burn the boat, if you put it outside it would be no good to us."

"I quite see that, Luka. We must make ourselves comfortable, for this
storm may last for days for anything I know. We must prop this end of
the boat up so that we can sit upright under it with something to spare.
We must pile up some stones a couple of feet high under each gunwale."
In a quarter of an hour this was done. The sail was then laid over the
boat, the ends being kept down by stones.

"That is snug," Godfrey said. "Now we will put the mizzen over forward
so as to keep the wind out right along." There were four feet of head
room at the entrance to the boat tent, and in front of this the fire was
soon lit, one of the pine torches being cut up to start it with. The
skins were laid upon the ground, and taking off their wet coats they put
on fur jackets. "Now we can see about breakfast, Luka."

Luka had run down and filled the kettle, while Godfrey was fastening
down the sail. This was placed on the fire, and as soon as it began to
burn clear some of the fish they had caught the day before were laid on
the glowing