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Crania and Ethnologica for this is one of the villages in which all people starved two years ago_ I found two houses with about 25 people, and secured a lot of Crania &c and returned on board when the Corwin raised anchor and stood along the coast 6 or 8 miles farther past another small village to another and much larger place in all of which the people are all dead. The wind [[frequency?]] made a bad swell on the rocky shore by this place but we landed in the surf boat and the dingy was sent in with bags & boxes. In the first village the dead - with one exception were all in the two houses dying in their clothes as they had died but at this village which must have 


contained about 200 people nearly all of whom died. The sailors soon made an entrance through the roofs of two houses by a vigorous use of picks and entering I saw lying about as they had died the occupants all covered with their clothing and curled up in various positions as though sleeping when death entered. In one house there was a pile of dead numbering 12 or 15 persons in one corner as they had been carelessly tossed one upon the other in the corner while those who had died last lay about on the benches in equal numbers. In all the houses the wooden dishes of the place were turned bottom up & heaped in the corner as they were placed by the wretched people who had