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TUB GEKMx\N ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



On Captain Koldewey's return from liis first visit on 

 shore, lie reported that there were Esquimaux huts in 

 the neighbourhood, and brought a bleached, partially 

 moss-grown, human jaw-bone. In the morning, with 

 the help of Peter Ellinger and Wilhelm Mieders, I ex- 

 plored the remains of an Esquimaux settlement on the 

 afterwards named " Observatory Peninsula." 



UUINED ESQUIMAUX HUTS AND TENT-UINGS. 



On the shore facing the south-west we discovered a 

 long row of graves, heaps of stone so evidently built by 

 the hand of man that they must at once strike the eye ; 

 besides these were the upper parts of four well-preserved 



