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in [[strikethrough]] an outside [[/strikethrough]] an outer room used as a general sitting & work room [[strikethrough]] while [[/strikethrough]] comprising the front half of house. The rear half walled off with walrus hides into two equal apartments each of which is entered by a round hole smaller than the main entrance. These rooms answer to the pologs on the asiatic shore & are the sleeping apartments of the two families occupying the place and their ordinary clothing, bedding & small valuables are kept there. Tools, implements, food &c. are kept in the outer room. The old couple occupying half the place asked me to sit & were very pleasant but I


had to leave to end my business.

The walls & roof of these summer houses are entirely of walrus hide.

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They use clay lamps exactly like those on St. Lawrence Is. Their meat caches are small walled-up rooms close in front of the winter houses & in summer two large deep clefts in the rock just to the right of the village and only to be entered from the sea are used as storehouses in summer. I became time to leave so we got off to the ship after an incomplete survey of the place and stood off for Cape Pr. of Wales where we arrived 

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