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ANTIQUITIES. 
been so for years; so too was the heavy ice of the bay. 
Yet around these old homesteads were bones of the 
seal and walrus, and the vertebra) of a whale similar 
to that at the igloe of Anoatok. There must have 
been both open water and a hunting-ground around 
them, and the huts had in former days been close upon 
this water-line. “Una suna nuna?” “What land is 
this, Kalutunah ?” I did not understand his answer, 
which was long and emphatic; but I found from our 
BONE KNIVES FROM PEABODY AND DALLAS BAYS. 
interpreter that the place was still called “the in¬ 
habited spot;” and that a story was well preserved 
among them of a time when families were sustained 
beside its open water and musk-ox inhabited the hills. 
We followed the belt-ice, crossing only at the headlands 
of the bays, and arrived at the brig on the afternoon of 
Wednesday. 
Our whole journey had been an almost unbroken 
and scarcely-varied series of bear-liunts. They had 
lost for me the attractions of novelty; but, like the 
