| "At five o’clock in the afternoon, rainy weather setting in, we made for a small island, and mooring the boats as near the beach as we could, covered them up, and landed to prepare supper. [...] It is bounded towards the sea by a bulwark of sand-hills, drifted by the wind to the height of thirty feet. Under their shelter seventeen winter-houses have been erected by the natives, besides a large building, which, from its structure, seemed to be intended for a place of assembly for the tribe. Ooligbuck said he thought it was a general eating-room, but he was not certain, as his tribe erect no such buildings." |
