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This is a rich place for various articles owing to the abundance of ivory &c. Their snow shovels are edged on end of blade with ivory & they have fine spears, stone lamps and other things [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] none of which I had time to secure spec's of. I obtained some good things but had to leave a fine quartz bone breaker or hammer stone shaped as follows & with a bone handle & weighing in all some pound and a half [[image 1]] another fine thing was a ladle of fossil elephant ivory holding a pint or more & shaped as follows. [[image 2]] I also noticed that they have an unusually large number of flint arrow, & lance heads as though they were still or had until lately used them  The flint lance heads are probably used whaling today. We closed the trading rapidly [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] at which a [[strikethrough]] hou [[/strikethrough]] howl was raised and a jam of natives trying by vociferating to each get a present at the same time looking for an opportunity to steal something. I kept a close lookout and supposed nothing had been taken till a villainous looking old fellow came rushing through the crowd crying out that we had not been paid enough for something or other. as he gesticulated and appeared to be in a great rage he used his left hand and I caught sight of a comb which he had pilfered from my box and I at once caught his hand & demanded it back telling him through the interpreter that he had stolen it for I had not given out a single comb here. He denied it at first but I insisted & he reluctantly yielded the comb saying it had accidentally got into his hand with some tobacco he held & which 

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[[image 1: drawing of Hammer Stone]] [[image 2: drawing of ladle of fossil elephant ivory]]