Down North and Up Along 
backs against the bluff, and about them are 
large frames roofed with poles, the flakes ap- 
propriate to the scale upon which fishing is 
here carried on. 
Standing about are large black iron pots with 
signs of extinct fires still visible under them; 
and there are vats of livers ; and everywhere 
fish are lying or hanging, the cod having the 
place of honour on the flakes, the queer-look- 
ing remnants of dogfish or skates spread out 
on the beach or hung up anywhere. 
The huddle of huts and great flakes, the 
boats drawn up on the shore, are all of the 
same weather-worn hue ; and, seen against 
the sombre, treeless bank with the boundless 
expanse of the northern sea in front, the place 
has a wild and remote aspect at once unique 
and impressive. 
In the narrow path that leads along between 
fish huts and flakes we saw a small and shaggy- 
haired ox with a yoke about his neck attached 
to a sled that would have graced an ethnologi- 
cal museum, for if it was not the work of 
primitive man, it at least was the primitive 
work of man, which amounts to about the same 
thing, so far as looks are concerned. 
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