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70cm. broad. Only a dull light comes through the gut-skin; 

 to be able to see out from the house there is a small peep- 

 hole in the centre. 



The floor-place itself is not large. Its extent depends 

 partly on the size of the house, partly on the amount of space 

 occupied by the side-platforms. In one house, for example, 



Fig. 12. 



Photograph of a winter-house seen directly in front. Uppermost the remains of the 

 window opening and just under this the entrance from the passage. The two openings 

 to the right and left of this lead merely into store-rooms, which are built at the side of 

 the passage. In front of the house the ground is covered with refuse. The beach is 



just in front. 



the distance from the entrance to the main platform was 170 cm 

 and across from the one side-platform to the other likewise 

 170 cm; each of the latter was here only ca. 35 cm broad. 

 The whole breadth of the house in front, including these re- 

 cesses, was thus 240 cm. In another house the corresponding 

 dimensions of the floor were 130 and 175 cm; here the plat- 

 form to the left was 75 cm broad and that to the right as 



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