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The doorway looked towards the west and was (1-60 M. broad. 

 Bones of seal were found near the shelter. A permanent meat-depot 

 (442) was found 4 meters S. S. E. of the shelter. It was built of 

 uniformly large, compactly placed stones, but was open. It was 

 050 M. in the three directions. Both the shelter and the depot were 

 covered with sand. 



Shelter 443 was found 5 meters east of shelter 441. It was 

 double and was finely built. The stones in the back wall were 

 placed close together on end, 040 M. high; the other stones were 

 placed with interspaces. As is shown in PI. Ill the platform edge 

 consisted of 2 rows of flat stones, and along the whole of the south 

 wall there was a kind of side-platform, also of flat stones; the 

 ground on the remaining part of the platform had been well levelled. 



Shelter 444 was built on sandy ground up against a large rock 

 ca. 060 M. high, about 20 meters north of shelter 443. Otherwise 

 it was constructed of ordinary, separate stones, and of flat platform- 

 edge stones. The platform лvas level and solid. 



Shelter 445 was found 8 meters north of shelter 444; ca. 100 

 meters further north lay: 



Shelter 446, ca. 20 meters from the beach and ca. 10 meters 

 above the sea. It was constructed of a compactly built row of 

 ordinary stones 035 M. high. In ils N. W. corner was a heap of 

 stones and bones, separated from the remaining space by a row 

 of stones. 



A circular, temporary meat-store (447), 050 M. in diameter, was 

 found ca. 20 meters south of the shelter. 



Shelter 448 was found ca. 75 meters north of shelter 446, ca. 

 75 M. from the beach and ca. 20 meters above the sea. This shelter 

 must rather be regarded as a curved screen, behind which the 

 Eskimos had lain for shelter against the N. W. wind. The land 

 goes evenly up from the beach, now^ and then forming a small 

 gravelly ridge, and it has been such a ridge heightened by the 

 stones, which has formed the shelter. The lying place was now 

 covered by a dense, warm carpet of heather. The whole of the 

 screen was 060 M. high and easily distinguished in the landscape. 



Shelter 449 was found south of the mouths of the two rivers, 

 10 meters south of shelter 439. It was formed of a single, compact 

 row of ordinary stones; the ground w^as overgrown with heather. 



Shelter 450 lay ca. 100 meters south of shelter 438. It Avas built 

 of separate, ordinary stones on ground of clay. The shelter was old. 



The twelfth shelter 451 was situated on the north side of Lille 

 Snenæs, much further south than the others. It lay on the east 



