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wards tlie middle, and at the top was a small four- 

 cornered hole, covered with a bladder, which 

 served for a window. On the wall opposite the 

 entrance, broad boards, fastened one foot and a 

 half above the floor, served for sleeping places, 

 which only took up a third part of the room, and 

 at the side walls they had placed small ladders 

 quite horizontally, to set up their utensils. The 

 walls, and top, consisted of small beams, the visible 

 sides of which were made even. All the habit- 

 ations were built according to this plan, with the 

 exception of one, where a more numerous family 

 appeared to reside, as this had two more small 

 side-rooms. Their floors are raised three feet 

 above the earth, under which there are store-rooms, 

 and perhaps dog-kennels, as they are only three 

 feet high ; the walls and floors are also made of 

 wood : they have likewise windows, but no sleep- 

 ing benches. Several utensils, and other very 

 neat work of the inhabitants, lay scattered about 

 in their dwellings. I particularly remarked two 

 very neatly made sledges of morse and whale- 

 bones, which likewise shows that they are used to 

 be drawn by dogs. After we had looked about a 

 little, we found that we were on an island seven 

 miles long, and, in the widest place, a mile broad. 

 We took a walk across it, from north to south, and 

 saw clearly, when we were on the opposite coast, 

 that the continent in the east forms a deep bay, 

 where, on three points, the connection of the land 



