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Cur. Bendix Thostrup 



Shelters. 1 By a sheller I understand in the following a small 

 place surrounded by stones, often not larger than to give room for 

 one person in a lying position. 



I believe that these places have served as shelter for one or two 

 men on a hunting excursion, and they might thus quite well be 

 called small tents,^' but their small size and their more temporary 

 character-' induced Mylius-Erichsen to distinguish them under a 

 special name, and I think it best to retain this arrangement. 



There are transitional stages, however, which with equal right 

 might be called tents or shelters; these are indicated as shelters 

 here; they may have a platform marked off by a stone edge. One 



Fig. 5. Shelter .îô6. Rypcfjelciet. 



Seen from the north. This shelter is constructed of large pieces of rock : the two pieces placed 



obliquely in the left corner were 0.75 M. high. The nearest wall has fallen in. . 



(Photo, by the author). 



or two of the walls may be up to 1 meter high, built of stone ^ or 

 pieces of rock standing on end (cf. especially Renskæret and Rype- 

 fjeldet). We may suppose, that the high walls in such a shelter 

 (fig. 5) or in such a tent — whichever we think best — must have 

 been raised owing to the great lack of driftwood here. It has often 

 been impossible to procure sufficient wood for building the tent 

 above the ground in any other way, than by making the upright 



1 Cf. Mc. Clintock: p. 152; Amundsen: p. 148; Steensby: pp. 287, 288 and Knud 

 Rasmussen 1: p. 90. - Cf. Steensby: pp. 325-2(>, 327 (Fig. 18 . ' Cf. Lyon: p. 74. 

 ^ Cf. Parry: p. 90. 



