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morton’s journey. 
which are used as a support to the small of the back, 
the dais was destitute of sleeping-accommodations 
altogether: a single walrus-hide was spread out for 
Morton and Hans. The hut had the usual tossut, at 
least twelve feet long,—very low, straight, and level, 
until it readied the inner part of the chamber, when 
it rose abruptly by a small hole, through which with 
ETAH, AWAHTOK’S HUT. 
some squeezing was the entrance into the true apart¬ 
ment. Over this entrance was the rude window, with 
its scraped seal-intestine instead of glass, heavily coated 
with frost of course; but a small eye-hole commanding 
the bay enabled the in-dwellers to peep out and speak 
or call to any who were outside. A smoke-hole passed 
through the roof. 
When all the family, with Morton and Hans, were 
gathered together, the two lamps in full blaze and the 
