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high. It stood about 140 meters above the sea in a hollow near the 

 raised plain on the south coast. The hollow, which was filled with 

 snow, sloped towards the sea and the trap was built of uniformly 

 large stones on a small, bare rock in the middle of the snow. The 

 door of the trap was in its place. 



On the high plain we had an excellent view over the ice. Here 

 we found signs of ptarmigan, owls, hares, foxes, reindeer and 

 musk-ox. 



Tracks of many foxes and bears were seen along the south beach 

 of the island and on a large ice hummock far out to sea we saw 

 two large animals, walrus or seals. 



Our main impression was that the hunting conditions to all 

 appearance must have been good. 



Кар St. Jacques (lat. 77° 36', long. 18° 12). Here we found a 

 camping ground with 7 tent-rings, 5 temporary meat-stores, 1 cairn 

 and 1 "stone table". The sketch of the tent place (fig. 14) shows the 

 relative situations of the stone remains. 



Tliis cape is a point about 1 

 kilometer long, which juts out in 

 a westerly direction from the high 

 southern shore of the He de France. 

 It is composed of small pebbles, 

 quite uniform in size, with 5 to 6 

 distinctly marked, earlier shore-lines. 

 The Eskimo remains ^ found lay 

 chiefly between the second and the 

 fifth shore-line. The uppermost line 

 I estimated to lie about 20 meters 

 above the sea. The oj)en water 

 probably seldom penetrates right 

 in to the shore at the settlement 

 itself. 



The best of the tent-rings (14, Fig. U. Settlement on Кар St. Jacques. 



fie. 14) lay about 3 meters above The curves represent earlier shore-lines. 



'^ ' "^ (Sketch hv the author). 



the sea, was oval in form, 430 M. 



in north-south cross-section , 355 in east-west, and had two door 



openings towards the south; each of these was 058 M. broad and 



separated from the other by a row of stones, 125 M. long, which 



led into the house and consisted of 3 large stones about 025 M. 



high. 



The platform formed the north-eastern part of the tent and was 

 ' Cf. Duc d'Orléans 1: p. 242 and Duc d'Orléans 2: p. 15. 



