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Aug~ 6th Cape Waukann

The natives came off early in the morning bringing a miscellaneous assortment of chains & other things obtained from the wrecked Whaler last autumn. These were bought for a liberal price as an incentive to bring other owner. A few mere iron pots with perhaps an old ax and in a few cases a miserable rickety old shotgun made with iron articles In use except a few small bone working tools as awls & gauges & c & the small much worn hunting knives worn on the right thigh of each man made up the amount of the ironware in use - [[crossed out]] tho [[/crossed out]] In the centre of the room a small ashy spot marks the fireplace close by which or perhaps at one side of the room lies a fire drill, bow 


and block of wood- with which these people obtain fire very quickly. They have had so little intercourse with whites that most of them do not know how to light a match and though they ask for matches to light their pipes yet they would look at them curiously then hand them back & motion for us to strike them. Lying about just outside the door were shovels made by lashing a flat piece of bone (from whales skull or vertebrae) to a handle as follows [[image]] and in the houses were seen adz shaped implements of bone on wooden handles as follows [[image]] the shovels are for excavating in making their underground caches &c & the thin adz shaped implements for cutting grass and loosening sod for making

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