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of the burial place & no 
trace of any body being
buried could be found so I 
think it probable that they are laid naked on the ground for dogs & ravens as Reynolds states in his notes.

In several houses wooden 
troughs filled with the slightly cooked leaves of the dwarf willow were seen & a native showed us that they were to eat they 
had a pleasantly bitter taste & probably serve as a good antiscorbutic.

I tried to buy a bow of a man in one place but he put his hands on his stomach and made up [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] horrible grimaces and pointed to the grave yard as to say he would perish of hunger if he sold it & though I 
offered a good price he would not sell it nor were they willing to sell their seal & walrus spears - 

I saw a fragment of clay pot at one of the grave places & a few clay lamps of the following shape made up all the pottery seen here. [[image]] Most of the 
lamps in use here are of 
wood made in the same shape out of one piece

On my way back to the vessel I find over 15 times a a spoon bill sand piper without killing it - The no. 4 shot being altogether
too coarse. Returning on board toward eve. I went back to the village & secured some photo's with better light than in the morning- The people were quite jolly & thought it great sport to be stood up & ogled through the camera but it was hard to make them keep quiet long

Transcription Notes:
antiscorbutic has the effect of preventing scurvy image: arched top with two flat pieces reaching horizontally toward the center and a flat bottom