[508]. Compare Crantz, vol. 1, p. 176.

[509]. 2d Voyage, p. 541.

[510]. See also the passage from Crantz, quoted above; Dall, Alaska, p. 16; and Nordenskiöld, Vega, vol. 2, pp. 23 and 130.

[511]. See the various accounts of the eastern Eskimo already referred to.

[512]. Contributions to N. A. Ethn., vol. 1, p. 86.

[513]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 135.

[514]. Compare Nordenskiöld, Vega, vol. 2, p. 126 and Rink, Tales, etc., p. 52.

[515]. Compare Bessels, Naturalist, vol. 18, No. 9, p. 880, where he speaks of finding among the people of Smith Sound ivory carvings representing animals and human figures “exceedingly characteristic.” (See also Fig. 21 of the same paper.)

[516]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 127.

[517]. Vega, vol. 2, p. 142.