262 THE ESKIMO ABOUT BERING STRAIT [ETH. ANN. 18 
Eskimo had followed a deliberate plan. The large number of boats, 
and the necessity for having clear space to enable each crew to launch 
without interfering with its neighbors, must have brought about this 
plan, which could not have been improved, as the entire camp could 
embark and paddle to a trading vessel in less than five minutes. 
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Fic. 90—Arrangenient of summer camp at Hotham inlet. 
This was a temporary camp which is located here for a few weeks 
each summer for the purpose of trading with vessels which cruise in 
these waters, as well as for meeting and trading with the people from 
both shores of Bering strait. 
At Point Hope, just north of Kotzebue sound, was found a large 
Eskimo village, containing between three hundred and four hundred peo- 
ple, living in conical summer lodges. The winter village of semi-subter- 
ranean houses was on the outer edge of the cape, the summer village 
being nearer the mainland. 
Near Cape Thompson was 
found a small party of peo- 
ple, from Point Hope, who 
were on their way up the 
coast and were waiting here 
for better weather. They 
were living in conical lodges 
covered with a patchwork 
of sealskins sewed together. 
The entrance to each lodge 
was through a square hole 
in one side, about two feet 
from the ground, as shown 
in the accompanying illus- 
tration (figure 91). 
At Cape Lisburne was found another camp of Point Hope people on 
their way northward Two photographs of this camp were obtained, 
from one of which plate LXxxv was drawn. This camp had the usual 
conical lodges, some of them being round-topped like those seen at 
Cape Espenberg. 
FiG. 91—Summer lodge at Cape Thompson. 
