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prised; and how they assured their visitors (also by
means of signs) that they would go a-hunting with
them on the following day, whereat they (the sailors)
were delighted, and shook hands all round. Neither
have we space to tell of how the visitors were obliged
to conform to custom, and sleep in the same huts
with men, women, children, and dogs, and how they
felt thankful to be able to sleep anywhere and any-
how without being frozen. All this, and a great deal
more, we are compelled to skip over here, and leave
it, unwillingly, to the vivid imagination of our reader,

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