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managed to fall down through the opening in her brother's fox- and 

 raven-trap, so that she killed all the foxes and ravens. Probably 

 the fox- and raven-trap has been of the same kind as this hollow 

 cairn, as it is certain that neither a fox nor a raven could get out 

 of it again. 



Similar hollow cairns or structures of the same form have 

 been found before Ч 



Renskæret (lat. 76° 41', long. 18° 34'). Here we found 6 winter- 

 houses, tent-rings, shelters, permanent and temporary meat-stores, 

 fire-places and 3 sets of rests for women's boats. 



The islet is low, only 16 meters high ; it lies in the fairway 

 between Lille Koldewey and Кар Bismarck. A second, smaller islet, 

 Maatten, which lies between Renskæret and Кар Bismarck, was un- 

 fortunately not investigated, owing to lack of opportunity, but stone 

 remains are perhaps also to be found on it. 



In good summers there is much open water round about Ren- 

 skæret. In bad summers there is open water inside it. The islet 

 has innumerable, sharp, large and small stones and there are not 

 many places where small gravel or pebbles occur. At the present 

 time the islet is the breeding-ground for quantities of terns and 

 other sea-birds. 



The north, east and west shores only have a few, large per- 

 manent and temporary meat-stores (124). Further, some shelters 

 (125) occur here. 



The south end, on the other hand, is practically "sown" with 

 stone remains. Many large permanent meat-depots (126), several 

 temporary meat-stores (127), large and smaller shelters (128), well 

 built and up to 1 M. in height, and several tent-rings (129; fig. 27) 

 were found. Bones of marine animals and cast antlers of reindeer 

 lay scattered everywhere. (Bearded seal, fjord seal, reindeer (antlers), 

 Greenland whale). 



Of the winter-houses 5 lay to some extent together, in a row 

 directed N. W. to S. E., the sixth lay a little isolated, S. W. of the 

 westernmost of the other 5 houses. The isolated winter-house is 

 numbered 130, the others from west to east 131 to 135. 



In July 1908 all the winter-houses were still so completely 

 frozen, that the ice made investigation difficult, but we nevertheless 



1 Cf. ScoRESBY 1: pp. 186 and 203 (see 186); Scoresby 2: pp.354 and 356 (see 354); 

 ScoRESBY 3: pp. 216—217; Lyon: p. 46; Sherard Osborn : pp. 142— 144, illu- 

 stration p. 143; Belcher: I, pp. 279— 280, illustration p. 280; Ohlin: pp. 75—76, 

 Chart p. 72; Nathorst: pp. 229 and 334; Sverdrup 1: p. 7(1; Sverdrup 2: p. 68; 

 Amdrup 2: pp. 316 — 318. 



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