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are very wide : some are ornamented with feathers 

 from the bill of the eider duck placed apart in rows ; 

 others have thin strips of seal skin and hair edging 

 the sleeves and bottom, and indeed there are various 

 modes of ornament : the strips are sewn together 

 horizontally or vertically at the caprice of the maker. 

 This species of shirt is when good quite impervious to 

 water and exceedingly light, weighing only a few 

 ounces : it is manifest what a boon such a protection 

 must be in snow, particularly heavy drift, the fine 

 particles of which will penetrate into the smallest 

 crevice, and so completely fill the hair of the dress 

 that its weight becomes unbearable. The little square 

 patch is also a trusty friend ; when clogged it is easily 

 taken off, beaten, and replaced. 



Frequent visits were now made to the neighbouring 

 hamlets, those immediately proximate to our position 

 being of course most often repaired to. Of these, 

 Woore], the nearest, was about four miles, nearly south, 

 from the ship, in a small bay of the harbour which 

 had been christened Port Emma by Captain Moore ; 

 it contained ten or eleven huts, and about seventy 

 inhabitants. 



Highly interesting as our communication with this 

 new people naturally was, it must not be supposed 

 that we depended entirely upon them for means of 



