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men bad their hair cropped short, with the 

 exception of one long, straggling lock hang- 

 ing down on each side of the face; like the 

 Boothians, the women had lines tattooed upon 

 their cheeks and chins. 



We now proceeded round a bay which I 

 named Latrobe in honour of the late Governor 

 of Victoria, and of his brother the head of the 

 Moravian Church in London, both esteemed 

 friends of Franklin. 



Finding the " Mathison Island " of Eae to be 

 a flat-topped hill, we crossed over low land to 

 the west of it, and upon the morning of the 

 10th May reached a single snow hut off Point 

 Booth. I was quite astonished at the niunber 

 of poles and various articles of wood lying 

 about it, also at the huge pile of walrus' and 

 reindeer's flesh, seal's blubber, and skins of 

 various sorts. We had abundance of leisure to 

 examine these exterior articles before the in- 

 mates would venture out ; they were evidently 

 much alarmed by our sudden appearance. 



A remarkably fine old dog was tied at the 

 entrance — the line being made fast within the 

 long passage — and although he wagged his tail, 

 and received us as old acquaintances, we did not 

 like to attempt an entrance. At length an old 

 man and an old woman appeared ; they trembled 



