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A CROWDED INTERIOR. 
children, with nothing but their native dirt to cover 
them, twined and dovetailed together like the worms 
in a fishing-basket. 
No hyperbole could exaggerate that which in serious 
PORTRAIT OF ANINGNAH. 
earnest I give as the truth. The platform measured 
but seven feet in breadth by six in depth, the shape 
being semi-elliptical. Upon this, including children 
and excluding myself, were bestowed thirteen persons. 
The kotluk of each matron was glowing with a flame 
sixteen inches long. A flipper-quarter of walrus, which 
