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to their presence there — it may have been, for the sake of good 

 hunting or to protect the dwellers in the shelter against evil spirits. 



In the neigbourhood of settlements are found other collections 

 of white stone, which may possibly have been children's playthings. 



After reading the report on the "Gjøa" Expedition I am of the 

 opinion that several of the shelters have a good deal in common 

 with the graves figured there ^; but I still believe that the situation 

 of the stone fences mentioned by me was such, that they could 

 only have been shelters and not graves. For the rest, I also had 

 the idea in the beginning that bodies had been placed in these stone 



Fig. 7. Trap 357. East shore of Stormbugt. 

 The falling door is resting on the locking stones. (Photo. J)y A. Wkc.knkiO. 



fences, but by the end of my work in the field this idea had long 

 been displaced by the view that they were shelters. 



Fox-traps. Traps were found in such large numbers that they 

 must certainly be counted among the principal hunting apparatus 

 of the Eskimos. In addition to being found near the meat-depots 

 at the tent places and graves, they also occurred everywhere in the 

 open, high up on the fells or but little above the margin of the 

 beach, and far inland or near the coast. 



The traps were for the capture of foxes; bear traps were not 



• ' See Amundsen: pp. ](J2 — 163, illustrations. 



