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different sizes roughly built with stones, either on the 

 fiat earth or against a rock or large stone, and now 

 more or less in ruins. For instance, when the Esqui- 

 maux obtain any booty so far from their tents or huts 

 that they cannot easily bring it home, they cover the 

 remains with stones, that the foxes may not steal it 

 before they return. 



Some isolated pieces of Esquimaux vessels and weapons 

 we eventually found in different places on the open 

 fields, and added them to the ethnological collection. But 

 besides the traces of the former native inhabitants, there 

 were other traces of humanity, which we had eagerly 

 searched after from the first, though apparently without 

 success in this deserted land. To us any indication 

 whatever of the visit paid forty- six years before, by our 

 predecessors of the English Expedition under Sabine 

 and Clavering, was interesting. The astronomers were 

 particularly anxious, according to the terms of our In- 

 structions, to discover the spot on which Sabine erected 

 his Observatory. But in vain did we search in every 

 likely place. The task was all the more difficult, as we 

 knew that Sabine had brought a wooden Observatory out 

 with him ; and not until our return, after searching the 

 original account near the journey, did we find that the 

 building had stood near the first-described Esquimaux 

 huts. 



As regards the Esquimaux traces on Klein Pendulum, 

 directly after our arrival we discovered three winter 

 huts ; they lay close to our anchorage, on the gently 

 sloping plain from the foot of the Stufenberg to the 

 shore. 



As the astronomers had raised their tents on the land, 



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