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Who he was, where he came from, and when he was sat on Eolusneset, I will never know. The only evidence of his existence is a ruined clay pipe in the moss by a burial ground. But from this little fragment of the past, I can be sure that he was a whaler who visited Eolusneset some time in the 1600s or 1700s. He probably came to bury a colleague and a friendAfter the burial he sat down for a short rest somewhere that protected him from the weather, that had a view over the burial ground and the fresh grave. In the protected place, with the rocks as a backrest, he fired up his clay pipe and a last salute was sent to the deceased. While he was sat there, smoking, his clay pipe broke, and the head fell into the moss. There it was found several hundred years later by another person who had sat down for a cigarette and a rest after a long day of work. I took the cigarette with me when I left. But the clay pipe is still there.
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