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THE ESKIMO AT PORT CLARENCE. 
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inflated and fastened to harpoons as floats, were sometimes 
ornamented with small faces carved in wood (figure 3, page 
241). In one of the two amulets of the same kind, which 
I brought home with me, one eye is represented by a piece 
of blue enamel stuck in, and the other by a piece of iron 
pyrites fixed in the same way. Behind two tents were found, 
erected on posts a metre and a half in height^ roughly-formed 
wooden images of birds with expanded wings painted red. I 
endeavoured without success to purchase these tent-idols^ for 
a large new felt hat—an article of exchange for which in other 
cases I could obtain almost anything whatever. A dazzling!y 
ESKIMO GRAVE. 
(After a drawing by O. Nordquist.) 
white Tcayak ot a very elegant shape, on the other hand, 
I purchased without difficulty for an old felt hat and 500 
Eemington cartridges. 
As a peculiar proof of the ingenuity of the Americans when 
offering their goods for sale, it may be mentioned in conclusion 
that an Eskimo, who came to the vessel during our stay in the 
harbour, showed us a printed paper, by which a commercial house 
at San Francisco offered to ‘'sporting gentlemen” at Behring’s 
Straits (Eskimo ?) their stock of excellent hunting shot. ' 
^ The Eskimo however, like the Chukches, do not appear to have any 
proper religion or idea of a life after this. 
