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a stiff gale from the n. and making heavy breakers all along the shore. We came to anchor in the evening behind the nw. point of the island which is terminated with a sand spit on which is a small village of natives whose round topped [[summer?]] huts of walrus sin are very different from those seen on the shore of Norton Sound where tents only are used in summer. When the wind moderated a little in the eve a small bidarra came off with a half dozen men on board who presented a striking variety of physiognomy and showed a greater range of features than I have seen among so few natives of one village before. Their umiak had its sides very much straighter up and down than the umiak in the Norton Sd. These people talk a mixture  
of the language used on Sledge Is and to the southward along Norton Sound My interpreter from St. M. said he understood about half they said and to do any trading a coast native from near Plover Bay who talks English was used as all these St. L. people make (commonly) excursions in their umiaks to Plover Bay to buy deer skins for Parkies. They used formerly to visit Cape Nome at times on the American coast. They lash large seal skin floats alongside their boats. The men practice the tonsure and on one man I saw tattooed two short lines at the corner of each eye on temples and a double circle on each side of chin nearly at the point where [[?]] holes are pierced. No [[latrun?]] holes were seen. The sketch below shows these tattoo marks.

[[image of a head?]]