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entrances obliquely directed towards the south or 
south-east. 
Adjoining the huts, there were numerous exca¬ 
vations in the ground, that had apparently been 
employed for stores, and other offices. There 
were also several tumidi, and a considerable num¬ 
ber of graves scattered about the hamlet. Many 
of the graves were immediately behind the huts ; 
others were among them, or in front; and two 
or three were found in the floors of some of the 
older looking huts, which had probably become 
the burying-places of the last of the occupiers. 
These graves, in general, contained human bones. 
A very perfect skull was taken out of one of them, 
which, containing a fine set of teeth, with the 
dentes sapientes just protruding, and being of a 
small size, was supposed to have been a female of 
about twenty years of age. Many of the graves 
contained, in addition to the human bones, frag¬ 
ments of the implements used by the natives in 
their fishing and hunting. Among these, were a 
few pieces of “ unicorn’s horn,” (the tooth of the 
narwal); some branches-of rein-deers’ horn ; and 
several bits of wood that had undergone a rude sort 
of fabrication. These deposits of usefid utensils, 
was an additional characteristic of the habits of 
the Esquimaux. This people, it is well known, 
in their natural and totally uncultivated state, 
