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1778. in which I faw nothing but water. And at the end of each 
. Au ^ ult '_, houfe was a vaulted room, which I took to be a ftore-room. 
Thefe ftore-rooms communicated with the houfe, by a dark 
paffage; and with the open air, by a hole in the roof, 
which was even with the ground one walked upon; but 
they cannot be faid to be wholly under ground; for one 
end reached to the edge of the hill, along which they were 
made, and which was built up with ftone. Over it ftood a 
kind of fentry-box, or tower, compofed of the large bones 
of large fifti. 
The fummer huts were pretty large and circular, being 
brought to a point at the top. -The framing was of flight 
poles, and bones, covered with the fkins of fea-animals. I 
examined the infide of one. There was a fire-place, juft 
within the door, where lay a few wooden veffels, all very 
dirty. Their bed-places were clofe to the fide, and took up 
about half the circuit. Some privacy feemed to be ob- 
ferved ; for there were feveral partitions made with fkins.. 
The bed and bedding were of deer-fkins; and moft of 
them were dry and clean. 
About the habitations were eredked feveral ftages, ten or 
twelve feet high; fuch as we had obferved on fome parts of 
the American coaft. They were wholly compofed of bones; 
and feemed intended for drying their fifh and fkins, which 
were thus placed beyond the reach of their dogs, of which 
they had a great many. Thefe dogs are of the fox kind, 
rather large, and of different colours, with long foft hair 
like wool. They are, probably, ufed in drawing their 
fledges in winter. For fledges they have, as I faw a good 
many laid up in one of the winter huts. It is alfo not im¬ 
probable, that dogs may conftitute a part of their food. 
Several lay dead, that had been killed that morning. 
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