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But Bobby had no time to think about this . Hunger was crying to be satisfied , and now that food was at hand he was hungrier than ever . As quickly as he could he dressed one of the seals , and as he had no means of cooking the meat made a satisfactory meal upon the raw flesh and blubber , after the manner of Eskimos . This done he looked about him for a suitable place to build a shelter , and finding a good drift not far away set about his building with greater care than on the night before , and before noon time had a small but well-fashioned _ igloo _ erected with a tunnel leading to the entrance that he might better be protected from the wind . He now skinned and dressed the remaining seals , and spreading the skins for a bed on his _ igloo _ floor felt himself very comfortably situated under the circumstances . `` Now , '' said he , surveying his work , `` if I only had a lamp and a kettle I could get on all right till the ice drives ashore or I 'm picked up or the pack goes to pieces and I wo n't need to get along any more . '' But this last thought he quickly put from him with the exclamation : `` That 's silly !