200 



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of hide to the falling stone, which consisted of a thin plate of stone. 

 In front, in continuation of the lateral walls, a stone was placed on 

 each side (locking stone). When the fox snapped up the bait and 

 the falling stone thus slipped down into its place to close the en- 

 trance, the locking stones prevented it from being shifted. 



From Baadskæret (lat. 76° 45', long. 18° 51') I brought home 

 with me a trap (279) which has now been set up in the ethno- 

 graphic collection of the National Museum in Copenhagen. 



Another kind of trap (a peculiar to wer- like structure) will 

 be described later (Кар Bismarck). 



Fig. 9. Temporal}' meat-store 92. S\ttenkilometcrnæsset- 

 Seen from the south. The temporary meat-store is seen in the foreground. Behind is the level 

 beach, well-suited for a tenting-ground, with the tent of tlie Exi)edition. (Plioto. by the author). 



Meat-stores or depots are constructed of stone, as a rule above 

 the ground; the stones are built up with care or heaped together.^ 



According to this difference in the mode of building, the meat- 

 stores are in the following divided into two groups, the permanent 

 and the temporary stores.^ 



By permanent meat-stores or depots I mean the structures which 

 have been constructed with care of accurately fitting stones, and 



1 When it is stated liere, for example, that the form of a meat-store is oval, cir- 

 cular etc., the reference is to the ground-plan; similarly also for other stone 

 remains. 



- Cf. Pansch: p. 55; Koldkwey: I, p. 596; Rydeu: p. 298 and Nathohst: pp. 343—44. 



