M IS S IO N S IN O U R 49th ST A T E (Cont.) cold of the weather causes them to fog badly and then the water vapor on them turns to ice.” He laments that-eggs are 95c a dozen and bread 45c a loaf. Dick continues with a description''of their living quar ters, the Army pre-fab cabin. “ Our house is 16’ square with a 6’6” ceiling. We have two windows, one on each side, and a door in front,” he says. “ Our heater is a large pot-bellied'stove in the middle of the room which bums about three buckets of coal a day. It is wonderful contentment to know you are right where the Lord Jesus Christ wants you and are doing according to His desire.” Of these uninsulated cabins, Mr. Blount reported that, because thè heat naturally rises, the person occupying the upper bunk may be gasping for air, while the one in the lower bunk is having all he can do to keep warm. One of thè Campers who was confined to her lower bunk with a back injury remarked that it was colder in the bunk than being up and around in the cabin. The tallest mem ber of the group, well over six feet, was feeling the 80° warmth on his head, while at the same time his feet were freezing on the floor of the cabin at 10°. The Campers learned that sheets of plastic tacked around the windows inside prevented the window from coating over, so that it remained transparent. At Christmas time, each family cut their own Christmas spruce tree and decorated it. It was -10° when the group went caroling through the village of Nanana on Christmas Eve, and -52° when they attended the New Year’s Eve watch night service in the village mission chapel. “ Great care must be exercised to prevent freezing,” says Mr. Blount. “ A brief frostbite is not too serious, and though the tissue has been damaged, it will recover. How ever, any part that has been frozen is that much more susceptible to a repetition, and serious injury can be the result of damage sustained over a long period. Cuts and cracks in the skin tend to take a long time to heal.” Mr. Blount outlined a typical day’s schedule at Arctic Training Camp as follows: 6:00 a.m.—Rising “ bell.” Waste no time dressing and dress warmly. (Temperatures are often -40 and -50° or lower during the winter.) 6:30— Individual devotions—Bible study and prayer. 7:00—Group breakfast. Menu will probably consist of stewed dried fruit, oatmeal, toast (made of sourdough bread), coffee, powdered milk. (Sometimes diet is varied with sourdough pancakes.) 8:00-9:00—Clean-up. 9:00-12:00—Classes. Such subjects as Arctic first aid, care and preparation of food, navigation, making of snow- shoes, building and handling of dogsleds and care of team, Wycliffe orientation, language study, are all part of the curriculum. As one of the First Aid proj ects, one of the members (supposedly wounded) was carried on an improvised stretcher several miles back to camp. Building of emergency snowhouses taught the' grimness of rescue work in the Arctic winter.
Because o f’-the exertion and more rapid respiration, A' the lungs *of the bearers tended to become frosted, ' which could easily result in pnuemonia. Also the one being carried tended to freeze while the bearers be came overheated with the resultant danger of freez ing, despite down-lined parkas. 12:00—Lunch. Beanburgers, mooseburgers, stewed fruit, powdered milk, chocolate, coffee. 2:00-5:00—Linguistic and survival theory studied in the morning is applied in the afternoon, along with visits to the homes of native Eskimos and Athapaskan tribespeople. These visits serve the double purpose of analyzing the language and cultivating the friend ship of the people in order to give a Gospel witness. 6:00—Dinner. Caribou or moose steaks, fish, squirrel, grouse, etc., depending on the season and availability, sourdough bread, coffee, powdered milk. “ Another important adjustment is getting used to the long nights of winter in the far north,” Mr. Blount says. “ On December 17 the camp record showed sunrise at 10:40 a.m. and sunset at 1:39 p.m. And in the summer, of course, you will have the long days—20 or more hours of sunlight.”
Dave Henry fishes through hole made in ice “Life isn’t going to be easy in the frozen north,” he continued. “ One couple, moving to their field assignment, had friends who heated the house every day for a week to get the frost out of the walls before the translators arrived. But the Campers are really enjoying it—ready and willing to meet any circumstance in order to get God’s Word out to these Bibleless tribes. “ This training is making them resourceful and con fident that they can meet satisfacorily the living condi tions of their chosen field — and that’s what it was established to do,” he concluded.
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