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the misery of starvation left as their only fate* Each of these houses however were closed from the outside as noted below. The following sketch shows the structure of one these winter houses. The tunnel is about 20 yards or 25 yards long and frequently has curved entrance tunnel

[[image - sketch of winter house]]
x is the chimney of a whale vertebra hollowed out
a,b,c,d = sleeping benches

to one side in its course as thought to prevent draughts various utensils, clay pots Kantags, arrows and among the most valuable things were pieces of armor of narrow strips of bone laced together in an overlapping series. I secured various fine things and saw scattered about guns, knives axes and ammunition showing that the people had means of procuring game if they had not lacked the requisite energy. In all the houses were empty whisky bottles and it was probably this which was the primary cause

[[image - sketch, stockade shelter roofed in over the entrance to tunnel and about 6 ft high of drift wood]]

of the death aided by some enervating disease and the resulting [[?]] on the part of the people

[[?]]; Turnstones with red legs - Lapland Longspurs Snw Buntings, Glaucus Kittiwake Short Billed Gulls Common & Emperor Gull seen when I first landed also 2 Prs. of the strange duck I