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THE POINT HARKOW ESKIMO. 



eriiiitc (leek licaiii is Inaccd to the jivuiwale at each eud by 

 ashing- of whalehoiii', luiiiiing from a trausverse hole in the 

 bout 1 inch from the gunwale to a correspondiiig 

 the gunwale, three-quarters iuch from the lower 

 Tiie lashing- makes three or four turns through 

 oles and around tlie lower edge of the guuwale, and 

 1 is wrai>i)ed spirally round these turns for their 

 .;th. Al)ove these beams a narrow batten runs 

 re and aft amidsliips fi'om eockpit to stem and stern, 

 ortised into the two bi'ams at the cockpit, and lashed 

 the others with whalebone. The coaming- of the cock- 

 t is made of a single flat piece of wood, If inches broad 

 larter inch thick, bent into a hoop -with the ends 

 jiing about (t inches and " sewed" together with stitches 

 of whalebone. Eound the upper edge of this, on the out- 

 side, is litteil a •' half-round" hoop, which appears to be 

 made of willow, three-quarters by one-third inch, with its 

 ends lajiped aliout 4 inches, this lap coming over the Joint 

 of the larger hoop. It is fastened on by short stitches of 

 whalebones about 5 or (i inches apart, leaving room enough 

 between the two hoops to allow a lacing- of flue whalebone 

 to pass through. The coaming is put on over the edge of 

 the skin cover, which is drawn up tight inside of the coam- 

 ing and over its upper edge and fastened by a lacing of 

 whalebone, which runs spirally round the outer hooj) and 

 through holes about one-half inch apart in the edge of the 

 cover. 



The coaming tits over the crown of the arch of the for- 

 ward deck l)caiii and rests on the middle of the thwart aft, 

 and is secured ])y lashings of wlialeb(me, which pass through 

 lioles in the coaming and over its ujiper edge. The forward 

 lashing nmkes tiiree turns, which pass round the beam -with 

 the end wrapi)ed .spirally round the parts between beam 

 and coaming; the after lashing, four similar turns, which 

 through a hole in the tliwart and around its forward 

 On eacli side is a stout verti.-al brace of wood 3^ 

 s long, 1 inch wide, and one-half ineli thick, with 



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tits on t. 



out paral- 

 the upper 

 ceives the lower 

 utside through a 



cover is (jf sis sealskins, put together heads to tails, 



t there is only one longitudinal seam, which runs 



■ along the deck. The transverse seams, which 



udy aci-oss the bottom are double and sewed 



