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anchored off this latter village and a more villanous crew I have not seen in the north. The men are tonsured and the women & men dress as at Plover Bay. The women are similarly tattoed but they talk differently for neither I nor my man could understand a single word they said. These people are probably all degraded Reindeer people but their features are very similar to those of the Eskimo. I secured some photos. They brought on a lot of spawning smelts the males of which have a curious keel shaped development of the scales on each side.


King Eider ducks were quite numerous in flocks all about. A man was sent to call the deer chief Omnihott but the Capt. not wishing to wait for him started up the coast again. The natives use umiaks exclusively from St. L. Is. to here and all these boats are very straight on sides with very slight flare but all carry 3 or 4 inflated seal floats.

A few men have a little tattooing on face. One man has as follows - one each cheek near corner of mouth [[Drawing: diagram of two concentric circles, one inside the other, with 8 lines connecting between each circle and equally spaced apart]] and a boy was seen at Plover Bay with the following on forehead over each eye [[image - diagram of a circle with a vertical line extending from the bottom and one diagonal line coming out of either side about 2/3 the way down to the bottom of the vertical line]] which reminds me of the 

Transcription Notes:
.[[torsured?]] = tortured