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cleanly persons, going through the exciting exercise of a 

 sailor's reel or an Eskimo dance, with only the door 

 and one window as ventilators, the effect may be 

 imagined when the latter was obstructed by the major- 

 domo. 



A glance in was quite sufficient for us, and we pro- 



SEAL-HUNTING ON ICE-FIELDS. 



ceeded to have a look at the different " buildings " of 

 which the settlement consists. The principal are the 

 governor's house and the neat little wooden Lutheran 

 church, which boasted its belfry and organ, and had 

 seats for some 150 people. Clo?e down to the water's 

 edge was the storehouse, in which the fruits of the last 



