CHAPTER XI. 
HARTSTENE BAT-ESQUIMAUX DWELLINGS—A CROWDED INTERIOR 
-THE night’s LODGING-A MORNING REPAST-MOURNING FOR 
THE DEAD-FUNERAL RITES-PENANCE. 
Etaii is on tlie northeastern curve of Hartstene 
Bay, facing to the south and west. As you stretch 
over from the south point of Littleton Island to the 
main, the broken character of the ice subsides into a 
traversable plain, and the shore-scenery assumes a sin¬ 
gular wildness. The bottom series of plutonics rises to 
grand and mountainous proportions, and in the back¬ 
ground, soaring above these, are the escaladed green¬ 
stones of the more northern coast. At the very bottom 
of the bay are two perforations, one a fortress-mantled 
fiord, the other a sloping ravine: both are occupied by 
extensions of the same glacier. 
The fiord points to Peteravik, where Kalutunah and 
his hungry southern corps have now taken up their 
quarters; the other is the oft-mentioned settlement of 
Etah. A snow-drift, rising at an angle of forty-five 
degrees till it mingles with the steep sides of a moun¬ 
tain, is dotted by two dark blemishes upon its pure 
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