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All the traps lay quite open, only the long walls, the locking 

 stones and the falling door still standing, and they gave the im- 

 pression of being very old. 



The permanent meat-depots were very solid : 



At several places among the stone remains we found fossil 

 pieces of whale skeleton. Many musk-ox bones were also found 

 round about the hunting-ground. 



Between the two hunting-grounds, 200 meters from the lake, 

 we found 2 tent-rings (517), east-west from one another and 50 

 meters between. They were both broken up. The one had been 

 1*75 M. in diameter and built of ordinary, rounded stones; the other 

 200 M. in diameter and Hat, ordinary stones. 



Between the easternmost tent-ring and the lake — 50 meters E. N. E. 

 of the tent-ring — we found 2 spots (518 and 519) which had been paved 

 with stones. The distance from the one to the other was 8 meters 

 and they each consisted of a collection of flat stones with one large 

 rounded boulder. I imagine that both have been made by children 

 (cf. fig. 13) and the rounded boulder has served as seat. I have 



