pent-house

The prisoners wash themselves in wooden buckets arranged under a pent-house at one extremity of the hutment.

Work Camp 11033 GW 2010

Then he picked up a towel, and away we went: out through the pent-house door -- it was all I could do to follow him -- along the snow tunnel in nothing but -- Here steam really began to meet us, getting thicker and thicker as we came into the Barrier.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

I get up, interested in this proceeding, and slip out with one of them into the pent-house and so on to the Barrier.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

On my return to Framheim I saw no one, so I slipped into the pent-house, and waited for an opportunity of getting into the kitchen.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

In the north wall of the pent-house there was a door, and through this we went, entering a passage built against the house, and dark as the grave.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

This pent-house was of the same width as the hut -- 13 feet -- and measured about 10 feet the other way.

The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

This passage was connected with the pent-house by a side-door in the northern wall.

The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

There was the snow-tunnel leading to the pent-house; I could see that by the threshold that grinned at me.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

They were to bring up the remainder of the stores from the ship, and to build a large, roomy pent-house against the western wall of the hut, so that we should not have to go directly on to the ice from the kitchen.

The South Pole~ Depot Journeys 2009

The target is hung up on the door of the kitchen leading to the pent-house, and the man who is to throw first takes up his position at the end of the table at a distance of three yards.

The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009