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THE A^OYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
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driven by the Chiikches, according to tradition, to some remote 
islands in the Polar Sea. At these old house-sites Dr. Almquist 
and Lieutenant Nordquist set on foot excavations in order to 
collect contributioDs to the ethnography of this traditional race. 
The houses appear to have been built, at least partly, of the 
IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN THE RUINS OF AN ONKILON HOUSE. 
1. Stone chisel with bone handle, one-half the natural size. 2, 4. Knives of slate, one-third. 
3, 7. Spear heads of slate, one-third. 5. Spear-head of bone, one-third. 
6. Bone spoon, one-third. 
bones of the whale, and half sunk in the earth. The refuse 
heaps in the neighbourhood contained bones of several species 
of the whale, among them the white whale, and of the seal, 
walrus, reindeer, bear, dog, fox, and various kinds of birds. 
Besides these remains of the produce of the chase, there were 
