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magnetic pole, in latitude 70, a small bamd of natives 

 one of whom had on his dress a naval button. 



" It came," they said, " from some white men who 

 were starved upon an island where there are salmon 



AN ESKIMO VILLAGE. 



(that is, in a river), and that the iron of which their 

 knives were made came from the same place. One of 

 these men said he had been to the island to obtain wood 

 and i*n, but none of them had seen the white men t "> 



