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easy prey to the Eskimo, who used to stalk them and hunt 

 them down like game. They did not dare to attack them openly, 

 so cut them off, one by one, by following them, and attacking 

 and killing them when asleep. Their favourite method was to 

 bore holes in the foreheads of the Tunnit with an awl (a drill 

 in the Greenland story in Rink). Two brothers especially 

 distinguished themselves in this warfare, and did not desist 

 until the last of the Tunnit was exterminated. The Tunnit 

 built their houses of heavy rocks, which no Eskimo could lift. 

 They used the rocks for walls, and whale ribs and shoulder 

 blades for the roof. At the entrance of the house two whale 

 jaw-bones were placed. Ruins of these houses can still be seen, 

 overgrown with grass, with the roof fallen in. They may be 

 distinguished from old Eskimo iglus by the small, square space 

 they occupy. 



The Tunnit did not use the bow and arrow, but flint-headed 

 lances and harpoons with bone or ivory heads. They were so 

 strong that one of them could hold a walrus as easily as an 

 Eskimo a seal. 



They did not undestand the dressing of sealskins, but left 

 them in the sea, where the little sea-worms ( ?) cleaned off the 

 fat in a short time. The Tunnit dressed in winter in untanned 

 deerskins. They were accustomed to carry pieces of meat 

 around with them, between their clothing and body, until it 

 was putrid, when they ate it. 



The Tunnit were very skilful with the lance, which they 

 threw, sitting down and aiming at the object by resting the 

 shaft on the boot. For throwing at a distance they used the 

 throw-stick. 



They did not hunt deer like the Eskimo, but erected long 

 lines of stone "men" in a valley through which the deer passed. 

 The deer would pass between the lines of stones, and the hunters 

 hidden behind them would lance them. Remains of these lines 

 of rocks may still be seen. 



Their weapons were much larger, but not so well made as 

 those of the Eskimo, as can be seen from the remains on their 

 graves. The men used flint for the harpoon heads, and crystal 

 for their drills. The women used a rounded piece of slate 



