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houfe was a vaulted room, which I took to be a ftorc-room. ';7^- 

 Thefe ftore-rooms communicated with tlie houfe, by a dark """'^' 

 pnflage; and with the open air, by a hole in the roof, 

 which was even with the ground one walked upon; but 

 they cannot be faid to be wholly under ground; for one 

 end reached to the edge of the hill, along which, they were 

 made, and which was built up with done. Over it flood 

 a kind of fentry-box, or tower, compofcd of the large bones 

 of large fifli. 



The fummer huts were pretty large and circular, being 

 brought to a point at the top. The framing was of flight 

 poles, and bones, covered with the flcins of fea-animals. I 

 examined the infide of one. There was a fire-place, jufl; 

 within the door, where lay a few wooden vefTels, all very 

 dirty. Their bed-places were clofe to the fide, and took up 

 about half the circuit. Some privacy fecmed to be obferved ; 

 for there were feveral partitions made with fkins. The bed 

 and bedding were of deer-fkins ; and mofl of them were dry 

 and clean. 



About the habitations were ereded fevcral flagcs, ten or 

 twelve feet high ; fuch as we had obferved on fijme parts of 

 the American coaft. They were wholly compofed of bones j 

 and fecmed intended for drying their fifli and fkins, which 

 were thus placed beyond the reach of their dogs, of which 

 they had a great many. Thefe dogs are of the fox kind, 

 rather large, and of different colours, with long foft hair 

 like wool. They are, probably, ufed in drawing their 

 fledges in winter. For fledges they have, as I faw a good 

 many laid up in one of the winter huts. It is alfo not 

 improbable, that dogs may confl.itute a part of their food. 

 Several lay dead, that had been killed that morning, 



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