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[[strikethrough]] lay [[/strikethrough]] hung the polog under which lay a mass of filthy deerskins Lying scattered about on the ground inside the house were a few wooden trough like dishes, some sealskin bags filled with clothing and small articles, some deer bladders & intestines filled with oil or deer tallow and in one corner a filthy flat wooden dish filled with half decayed salmon trout. This with various small articles as pieces of seal & walrus skin line, stone marrow-bone breaker = [[image]] a few wooden kautags holding water and a couple of mountain sheep-horn water dippers comprised the most of the house furniture except a soapstone lamp of the same shape as seen at Cape Waukarem. The housewife offered the captain some deer fat in a piece of intestine but he politely declined.

Several Eskimo dogs were wandering about outside sniffing suspiciously at our heels, and some of the usual Chukchee model dog sleds were seen standing against the outside of the tents with a half dozen deer sleds made on the same model but much heavier material Against several of the sleds stood brightly polished bear spears on shafts some [[strikethrough]] 5½ to [[/strikethrough]] 6 feet long. The old man pointed out a hole torn in the side of the tent where a Brown Bear came down & made an entrance one day when the women were there alone and after making a lunch upon some blubber 

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