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Witli united efforts we hauled tlie boat up on to tlie 

 strand; and while the men were busy unloading the 

 craft, I went with the steersman to wake the inhabitants 

 of Igalhko, who in spite of our shouts had as yet taken 

 no notice of our arrival. 



The honest Greenland cattle-breeder had spread his 

 store of Angmaksiitten and Owak {Gadus ovac, Rhd.) on 

 the grass and cliffs, and the drying fish emitted a pesti- 

 lential odour, which fortunately later on dispersed a 

 little. From a low rocky pinnacle we could overlook 

 the whole settlement. The houses were larger than 

 those usually erected by the natives, and strikingly better 

 built. From the distance the building materials looked 

 like brick, or artificially-hewn stone. 



We passed over a hillock, and came to the flat top of 

 a rock, which seemed to be surrounded by a number of 

 regular blocks. Close by, however, they seemed to 

 possess more and more order; and the first Norse 

 remains lay before us. The ancient builders had, in the 

 erection of this house, made use of the steep rock as a 

 wall. The building materials were huge blocks of stone. 

 To all appearances it was rather a low building. The 

 rocky wall was about six feet and a half high, one foot 

 broad, and deeply hollowed out, which plainly had the 

 effect of limiting the upper part of the room; and it 

 seemed to me from this simple grooving, that the closing 

 up was performed by large stone slabs, which, later on, 

 I saw applied to other buildings, of which the neighbour- 

 hood of Igalliko has many. 



At last we reached the house. There, in spite of all 

 shouting, the inhabitants gave no sign of life, so there 

 remained nothing for it but to knock them up. From 



