Ethnographic Description of tlie Eskimo Settlements 205 



III. Description of the settlements 

 and stone remains. 



The numbers in the text refer to the order in the Table of the 

 stone-remains. The animals mentioned are those of which bones were 

 found at the place indicated and brought home. Where nothing else 

 is said, the measurements are of the interiors. The true directions 

 of the compass are given. Heights and distances are in part esti- 

 mated. In the sketches the scales employed are usually the follow- 

 ing: for settlements, 1 cm = 100 meters (M), and for stone remains, 

 V/2 cm = 1 meter (M). 



District I. The land round Hagens Fjord. 



Кар Peter Henrik (lat. 82° 00', long. 25° 10'). Tent-rings were 

 found here (1). 



Our acquaintance with these is confined to Høeg Hagen's sketches 

 which were brought by Jörgen Brønlund to the station on Lamberts 

 Land. In his diary Brønlund does not mention this discovery. 



We find from the same sketches that Independence Sound is 

 open in warm summers as far in as off Hagens Fjord, as an iceberg 

 is marked on them ca. 20 kilometers E. N. E. of Кар Peter Henrik; 

 this iceberg has become detached from one of the glaciers. But this 

 does not mean that the Sound itself is open; on the contrary, it is 

 said to be always or almost always frozen over. We may suppose 

 nevertheless, that it is only in specially warm summers that com- 

 pletely open water is found in here ofi" the fjords, whereas open 

 "land Waaler" probably occurs every summer along the margins of 

 the fjords, produced for a great part b}' the many rivers which send 

 out a quantity of warm water over the fjord-ice nearest the coast. 



Captain Koch describes these regions as follows: 



"Independence Sund is probablj^ never open to tlie east of Hagens 

 Fjord. Of the conditions further in we know practically nothing (Peary). 

 On the other hand, there is reason to believe that tlie ice in the interior of 

 Danmarks Fjord and Hagens Fjord disappears eacli зеаг and there is open 

 water along tlie coast further out in these Fjords. In the interior of Hagens 

 Fjord there is a calving glacier. On one of Hagen's sketches a station "Is- 

 fjeld" is indicated in the mouth of Hagens Fjord. If there is really an ice- 

 berg here, it may be considered as having come from the glacier in the in- 

 terior of the fjord, and this might indicate therefore, that the fjord may at 

 times be quite open. (Tent-rings at Кар Peter Henrik. " 



Something similar is said by Astrup \ who writes: 

 'The ice whicli covered the extensive bay- was apparently quite even. 

 Far out towards its centre we could detect dark patches, which were un- 



1 Astrlp: p. 210. - hidependence Sound seen from Navy Cliff towards the east and 

 north-east. 



