. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. u 0. oI. o I 2 o -1o CRUISE OF THE U. S REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 127 Ocean one sees poles and logs of driftwood set up on end in conicalpiles. Each of these piles surrounds an Eskimo body. These monu-ments are sacred, and will not be disturbed or used for fuel unlessthe native, from association with white people, has lost his fear ofthe consequences. The most interesting graveyard in Alaska is at Point Hope. It issituat
. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. u 0. oI. o I 2 o -1o CRUISE OF THE U. S REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 127 Ocean one sees poles and logs of driftwood set up on end in conicalpiles. Each of these piles surrounds an Eskimo body. These monu-ments are sacred, and will not be disturbed or used for fuel unlessthe native, from association with white people, has lost his fear ofthe consequences. The most interesting graveyard in Alaska is at Point Hope. It issituated about a mile from the village, on slightly elevated ridges ofsand and gravel covering the undulations of an extinct glacier. Most ofthe bodies are raised four to six feet from the ground and supportedwith structures made preferably of the jaws and ribs of the whale, whileothers are constructed of driftwood. Should a death occur in winter,when the snow lies on the ground hard and deep, the bodies ai-e laidout on the surface until the summer, when the snow disappears andenables the relatives to find material to build one of their scaffolds, onwhich the body is then placed. The most
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