CHAPTER XXX. 
JOURNEY OF MORTON AND IIANS — RECEPTION — THE HUT_TnE 
WALRUS—WALRUS-HUNT—THE CONTEST—HABITS OF WALRUS- 
FEROCITY OF TIIE WALRUS-THE VICTORY-THE JUBILEE_ A 
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Morton reached the huts beyond Anoatok upon the 
fourth day after leaving the brig. 
The little settlement is inside the northeastern 
islands of Hartstene Bay, about five miles from Gray’s 
Fiord, and some sixty-five or seventy from our brig. 
The slope on which it stands fronts the southwest, and 
is protected from the north and northeast by a rocky 
island and the hills of the mainland. 
There were four huts; but two of them are in ruins. 
They were all of them the homes of families only four 
winters ago. Of the two which are still habitable, 
Myouk, his father, mother, brother, and sister occupied 
one; and Awahtok and Ootuniah, with their wives and 
three young ones, the other. The little community 
had lost two of its members by death since the spring. 
They received Morton and his companion with 
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