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Beach west of Hvalrosodden (lat. 76° 56', long. 20° 16'). Here 

 луе found 2 tent-rings, traps and 1 cairn. 



This beach is low. The point itself is stony and sandy, but 

 further to the west are stretches of vegetation. Seal and walrus 

 are found in the bay. In August 1906 the Expedition found a 

 collection of walrus on the extreme point. These animals — per- 

 haps a score of them — lay and slept in the sun, and it was 

 clear from their fearlessness and half-curious behaviour that they 

 never before had seen human beings, at least as enemies and 

 hunters. 



On a small point ca. 2 kilometers west of Hvalrosodden we 

 found the skull of a dog 10 meters from the shore. 



A small cairn (457) stood ca. 100 meters north-west of the 

 point. It was badly built, ca. 1 M. in cross-section on the ground 

 and ca. 050 M. high. 



A circular tent- ring (458) was found ca. 100 meters W. N. W. 

 of the cairn, on overgrown beach-gravel, ca. 20 meters from the 

 shore and ca. 3 meters above the sea. The tent-ring, which was 

 built of ordinary stones, measured 3 M. in diameter and had a 

 doorway 060 M. broad, which faced the shore in a W. S. W. direct- 

 ion. (Bean-goose). 



A second tent-ring (459) of quite the same form, size and ma- 

 terials lay 2 meters west of 458; but the doorway here was 075 M. 

 broad and faced the S. W. (Bean-goose). 



North of the tent-rings, somewhat in on the land, were several 

 traps (460), standing singly. 



On a plain N. W. of the tent-rings we found a span of dog- 

 harness. 



Sælsøen (lat. 76° 58', long. 20° 14' and 20° 16'). Here we found 

 12 tent-rings, 1 shelter, 3 traps, 25 permanent meat-depots, 4 tempo- 

 rary meat-stores, 2 fire-places, 2 stone structures made by children, 

 10 stone ovals and many other stone remains. 



This lake is many kilometers long, but very narrow; its outlet 

 is Lakseelven, which may be regarded as the continuation of the 

 lake to the S. E. At the outlet the lake is shallow and filled with 

 large stones, and the river has but a slight depth at its upper end. 

 The lake is surrounded by high land, but round the outlet there is 

 tolerably flat country, and here we found some remains on the 

 southern bank of the lake. The district has in earlier times been 

 visited by reindeer and musk-ox, and here we have the only ex- 

 ample in these regions of the Eskimos carrying on their hunting 

 (and salmon fishing) by the lakes in on the land. Here, how- 



