One of the two lamps and a share of the provisions had been left in the _igloo_ on Itigailit Island, which was to be their land base and their cache. But they had brought with them the other lamp and necessaries to make their hunting _igloo_ comfortable. A good bank of snow was found, not too far from the ice edge, and in an hour an _igloo_ was ready and everything stowed safely away from possible foraging by the dogs. Then the two teams, still fast in their traces, were picketed behind the ice hummocks near the _igloo_, for had they been set at liberty each dog would have gone hunting on his own account, and the seals would have been driven from the ice and beyond range of the guns.