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situated the graveyard as I approached it I came upon a small black, one-eyed dog with a hyena like cast of countenance devouring the remains of a boy of 12 or 14 yrs. old. Only the head and chest remained. As I drew near the brute slunk away with incurved tail as though ashamed of its ghoul-like banquet.

The graves were scattered over this + the adjourning ridges for a mile or more. The bodies were mostly buried under a foot or two of stones in a hole made for the purpose and the body being always stretched out full length.

In many cases rough planks or sticks of wood were laid over the top of all and held in place by large stones and among the stones covering 


the body usually at one side were placed the utensils of deceased the spearheads showing the men and the day pot-sherds and lamps the women's graves. At one grave was a large Bear's (Polar) skull and at another some deer horns.

On some arrow points I saw etched the raven totem "[symbol]" so common on the American shore. I was able to make myself understood to these people about as at Plover Bay there appearing to be the same admixture of the Reindeer Chukchi. 

The clothing & tallowing are of the same pattern as notes all along this shore. I found at the graves a stone lamp about 15 inches long shaped as follows. [[image - sketch, semicircle within a semicircle]] and made of some soft stone- also