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New Year's Bay. 



[January, JSti5. 



be fl}'iiig', visits were received at a very early liour, the visitors having 

 but a short distance to come through the snow-covered passage-ways 

 which connected ahiiost all the ifjloos. Each one was greeted with 

 "IIap})y New Year! Happy New Year!" A breakfast of frozen veni- 

 son, well relished, was followed by another on tood-noo, to which young 

 OoJc-har-loo, son of Erk-tii-a, treated all hands. Hall then set a table 

 made of sea-chests resting on snow-pedestals. It was 25 feet in length, 



GUOUND I'LAN OF VILLAGE IGLOO. 



I, fiitraucc; 11, central i^jr/oo ; B, bed-platform; F, lloor; L, laiup. 



extending into the huts of Ou-e-la, Ar-7nou, and Nii-ker-^Jioo, and hav- 

 ing for seats around it snow-blocks cushioned with deer-skins. Flags 

 were draped, and lamps were lit all along the table, and at 2 p. m. 

 twenty-one grown persons sat down to the feast. Mammark, a wife, 

 for sj)('{'i;il reasons, and Ook-har-Ioo, because still an invalid, being ruled 

 • •III 1)\ ciistoni, iiUi by llienLselves. 



