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Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage

CHAPTER X
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There were twenty dogs like mastiffs, with pricked ears and long bushed tails; we found a bone in the pizels of their dogs.

Then we went farther and found two sleds made like ours in England.

The one was made of fir, spruce, and oaken boards, sawn like inch boards; the other was made all of whalebone, and there hung on the tops of the sleds three heads of beasts which they had killed.

We saw here larks, ravens, and partridges.
The 17th we went on shore, and in a little thing made like an oven with stones I found many small trifles, as a small canoe made of wood, a piece of wood made like an image, a bird made of bone, beads having small holes in one end of them to hang about their necks, and other small things.
The coast was very barbarous, without wood or grass.

The rocks were very fair, like marble, full of veins of divers colours.


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