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but large enough to hold the two men. There were 

 some fresh wood shavings outside the hut, and higher 

 up on the hill two boxes. On going to them Nincle- 

 mann found them old and decayed, and he began to 

 break one of them open. When he had ripped off the 

 top he discovered that there was another box inclosed ; 

 breaking into it he found a dead body, and hastily left 

 it. Doubtless the two crosses below on the river bank 

 were memorials of the two beings left high up above 

 the reach of the floods. 



Nindemann went back to Noros, and told him what 

 he had seen, and that they would find shelter in the 

 little hut. So they began to gather wood for their fire, 

 and Nindemann came upon five or six pieces of timber 

 lying close together frozen to the ground. He got a 

 stick, pried them loose, and left them for use in the 

 fire, as they were near to the hut, and went off for 

 more drift-wood. Noros, meanwhile coming up, began 

 to move the timbers, when he found that they covered 

 a hole in which lay a box, half filled with the earth 

 which had fallen into it. Upon dragging it out, he dis- 

 covered in it a couple of fish and one or two fish heads. 

 He made known his prize, and Nindemann coming for- 

 ward seized upon a lemming, which at that moment 

 came out of his hole. They went to the hut and made 

 a fire. Their supper was some willow tea, the lem- 

 ming and the fish. They could not dress the lemming, 

 but made a spit of their ramrod and roasted the little 

 animal which they divided between them. The fish 

 were decayed and dropped apart as they handled them, 

 but they found a couple of flat stones and so cooked 

 the fish on these before the fire. Supper over, they 

 closed the opening of the hut with a couple of boards, 

 and lay down by the fire to dry their clothes and sleep 

 till morning-. 



