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So that the plants commonly form closely aggregated patches of mosslike bosses on the ground with a deep green surface. Through the dense rounded mat of small dry leaflets are thrust innumerable [strike through] slendler [/strike through] slender stalks which bud & blossom as soon as they top the leaves thus adding above the layer of deep green as a background another layer but little thinner of the richest & most delicate colors as the case may be of the purple pink, red or white - or maybe yellow. The striking delicacy of coloring & form of these flowers taken with their surroundings makes one of the most pleasing parts of arctic scenery and one most common and striking even several hundred feet above the sea as far north as this. We found the [[that]] most of the people we met here hard featured - bold & impudent - many of them with villainously ugly countenances with sinister mouths & brows bearing out the character given them by the whalers & traders who come here & who unite in giving them a very bad name as thieves & rogues of the worst kind.

Approaching the village (which must contain from 300 to 400 people in winter judging from the size of the winter village) we found the people living in conical lodges except a large roomy tent built on the white mans [[man's]] model - this being the chiefs summer residence. The natives pointed out a turned up umiak as a place for us to stop - so getting in its shelter with my goods I opened a market for buying ethnologic spec's for about an hour when the Capt. became impatient and I was foiled of completing the work I had hoped on accomplishing for