354 A, S. Bickmore on the Ainos of Yesso. 
houses. The latter were scattered irregularly near the shore 
over a broad belt of sand, that has been drifted back by the 
easterly winds. They all have the same rectangular form, and 
slightly sloping. The roof projects a few inches at the eaves 
and rises from each side toa point inthe center. In the walls, 
on stones or blocks of wood, where the occupants lounge and 
sleep. They usually sit on the mats on the sand. In the 
id a Japanese bellows. The woman was crouched near the 
fire, twisting up thin strips of the inner layer of the bark of a 
tree into a continuous line of the size of a mackerel line. It 
is from such material, and in this way, that all the lines for 
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