ITS GARNITURE. 
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in apparent comfort. The only departure from their 
practised routine, which the bleak night and open roof 
seemed to suggest to them, was that they did not strip 
themselves naked before coming into the hut, and hang 
up their vestments in the air to dry, like a votive offer¬ 
ing to the god of the sea. 
“ Their kitchen-implements 
were even more simple than 
our own. A rude saucer¬ 
shaped cup of seal-skin, to 
gather and hold water in, was 
the solitary utensil that could be dignified as table- 
furniture. A flat stone, a fixture of the hut, supported 
by other stones just above the shoulder-blade of a wal- 
SEAL-SKIN CUP. 
rus,—the stone slightly inclined, the cavity of the bone 
large enough to hold a moss-wick and some blubber;— 
a square block of snow was placed on the stone, and, 
