516 THE GERMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



Dr. Pansch determined to make an effort to go there, 

 although the inflamed state of his wounds scarcely 

 allowed of it. 



These huts were in much the same condition as those 

 on Sabine Island, and their whole construction and 

 position were perfectly similar. The walls only seemed 

 a little higher, and the corners more rounded off. In 

 two the " tossut " or entrance tunnel was in good preser- 

 vation. We also found some tent-rings, but no graves. 

 At Cape Desbrowe, however, a little farther off, were 

 some from which we took a well-preserved skull. 



We found no winter huts on Cape Philip Broke, 

 although this must have been the only point of the island 

 on which they could have stood. On the other hand 

 tent-rings and caches were so crowded on the pro- 

 jecting-land point that we jokingly suggested that the 

 Esquimaux must have held their chief markets here. 

 The tent-rings did not merely lie near each other, but 

 in many cases over-lapped one another, distinctly show- 

 ing that they must be of different ages ; they do not 

 either necessarily show that one and the same family 

 always returned to the same spot every year ; and from 

 these traces of an ever-changing and most likely short 

 summer sojourn, it is likewise impossible to attempt to 

 decide upon the number of the former inhabitants, 

 as some writers have done. These are, however, ex- 

 cusable mistakes of those who have either not seen for 

 themselves, or have only cursorily noticed these things. 



It was understood that before leaving Pendulum 

 Island we should seek out the spot where, forty-seven 

 years before, Clavering met the natives. For his account 

 of the meeting, I refer the reader to his own narrative. 



