K~ai-m=o=o-khi~ak and Aw~a-r=un-n~i occupied one end, for it was a double tent; while at the opposite extremity the parents of the senior wife were established.  The old mother N=ow-k~it-y~oo assisted the young woman in pulling off our wet clothes and boots, which latter being of native manufacture, she new-soled and mended without any request on our side, considering us as a part of the family.  Dunn slept in the little tent to watch our goods, and I had a small portion of Ooyarra’s screened off for me by a seal’s skin.  My host and his wives having retired to another tent, and my visitors taking compassion on me, I went comfortably to sleep; but at midnight was awakened by a feeling of great warmth, and, to my surprise, found myself covered by a large deerskin, under which lay my friend, his two wives, and their favourite puppy, all fast asleep and stark naked.  Supposing this was all according to rule, I left them to repose in peace, and resigned myself to sleep.

“On rising, Dunn and I washed with soap in a pond, which caused great speculations among the by-standers, on some of whom we afterward performed miracles in the cleansing way.  A large assemblage being collected to hear me talk of Ney-uning-Eitua, or Winter Island, and to see us eat, the women volunteered to cook for us; and, as we preferred a fire in the open air to their lamps, the good-natured creatures sat an hour in the rain to stew some venison which we had saved from our shares of the deer.  The fires in summer, when in the open air, are generally made of bones previously well rubbed with blubber, and the female who attends the cooking chews a large piece, from which, as she extracts the oil, she spirts it on the flame.

“After noon, as I lay half asleep, a man came, and, taking me by the hand, desired Dunn to follow.  He led to a tent, which, from the stillness within, I conjectured was untenanted.  Several men stood near the door, and, on entering, I found eighteen women assembled and seated in regular order, with the seniors in front.  In the centre, near the tent-pole, stood two men, who, when I was seated on a large stone, walked slowly round, and one began dancing in the usual manner, to the favourite tune of ‘Amna aya.’  The second person, as I soon found, was the dancer’s assistant; and, when the principal had pretty well exhausted himself, he walked gravely up to him, and, taking his head between his hands, performed a ceremony called K=o=on~ik, which is rubbing noses, to the great amusement and amid the plaudits of the whole company.  After this, as if much refreshed, he resumed his performance, occasionally, however, taking a koonik to enliven himself and the spectators.  The rub-bee, if I may be excused the expression, was at length brought forward and put in the place of the first dancer, who rushed out of the tent to cool himself.  In this manner five or six couples exhibited alternately,