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on the ground and left. The dogs of the village soon 

 devour them, all except the skulls, which roll about until 

 destroyed by the weather. 



In this village we saw an old man wearing in his cheeks 

 the ivory labrets which all the Eskimo used to wear. 



Better than any description that can be given of the 

 village and its people are the reproductions of photographs, 

 taken by the expedition, which accompany this account. 



ESKIMO BELLE, PLOVER BAY. 



It had been proposed to stop, after leaving Plover Bay, 

 at Indian Point, where there is another Eskimo village, 

 but when the ship reached there, late in the night, it was 

 found that the surf was so heavy that no landing could be 

 made. It had been hoped also that it might be practicable 

 to stop at King Island, a vertical rock opposite Port Clar- 

 ence, inhabited by a village of very primitive Eskimo. 



