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THEIR EQUIPMENT. 
united. This last was a favorite material also for the 
cross-bars of their sledges. They had no wood. A 
single rusty hoop from a current-drifted cask might 
have furnished all the knives of the party; but the 
HOOP-IRON KNIFE, (S E V I K.) 
fleam-shaped tips of their lances were of unmistakable 
steel, and were riveted to the tapering bony point 
with no mean skill. I learned afterward that the 
metal was obtained in traffic from the more southern 
tribes. 
I give drawings of the lance-liead, and of the knives 
which the party carried. They were clad much as I 
have described Metek, in jumpers, boots, and white 
bear-skin breeches, with their feet decorated like his. 
