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CREATURE COMFORTS. 
as tlie hot smoke circled round it, the seal-skin saucer 
caught the water that dripped from the edge. They 
had no vessel for boiling; what they did not eat raw 
they baked upon a hot stone. A solitary coil of walrus- 
line, fastened to a movable lance-head, (noon-ghak,) 
with the well-worn and well-soaked clothes on their 
backs, completed the inventory of their effects. 
STAND OF WALRUS-BONES 
“ We felt that we were more civilized than our poor 
cousins, as we fell to work making ourselves comfort¬ 
able after our own fashion. The dais was scraped, and 
its accumulated filth of years removed; a canvas tent 
was folded double over the dry, frozen stones, our buf¬ 
falo-bag spread over this, and dry socks and moccasins 
were drawn from under our wet overclothes. My 
copper lamp, a true Berzelius Argand, invaluable for 
