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THE CAPE YORK METEORITES, 
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“ AnnicHito,”’ or “THE TENT,” “THE Woman” and “THE Doe.” 
(Siderites.) 
For centuries, and perhaps for thousands of years, the three masses 
of iron known as the Cape York meteorites lay on the north coast of 
Melville Bay near Cape York, Greenland, but they were seen for the 
first time by a white person, when they were visited by Commander 
Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., in 1894 and 1895 under the guidance of 
Tallakoteah, a member of the Eskimo tribe which up to the early part 
CAPE YORK. 
“The Dog”. Weighs 1100 pounds. 
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of the nineteenth century had obtained material for knives and other: 
utensils from the masses. 
The three meteorites were known as a group to the Eskimo under the- 
