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Comparing the discoveries at Sælsøen with those here at Rype- 

 fjeldet, we obtain some notion of how the time of the earliest 

 Eskimos was occupied. 



As already mentioned, I imagine that the Eskimos have lived 

 at Sælsøen in the summer and so much of the winter as their 



Fig. 50. Tent-ring. Foraarsboplads. Rj'pefjeldet. 



(Drawing by Аситох Fhiis). 



stores permitted; when these were exhausted they migrated to the 

 coast. It is natural to suppose, that they moved to the winter- 

 houses at Rypefjeldet and lived there during the darkest time of 

 the year, using the moonlight for their seal-hunting at the breathing 

 holes and bear hunting. As soon as the light returned, in the 

 middle of February, the dog-sledges could be brought into use and 

 the" area worked over became considerably wider for the hunter. 



