Ethnographic Description of the Eskimo Settlements 



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All the parts in the inner, western part of Roonbugt were but 

 little investigated ethnographically. 



Кар Peschel (lat. 76° 14', long. 19° 56'). Here 4 tent-rings, 5 

 shelters, 2 permanent meat-depots, 8 temporary meat-stores and 1 

 grave were found. 



At this place a small, hammer-like promontory on the coast- 

 line is connected with the mainland by a quite low spit of land, the 

 surface of which consists of very fine gravel or pebbles. North of 

 the spit the eastern part of the bay had some screw-ice on the 

 beach, but the western part is quite level. To the south of the spit 

 the ice of the bay is perfectly even; to the north and north-west 

 of the spit there are many grounded icebergs. 



On the spit w^e found 4 tent-rings and 1 temporary meat-store. 

 (PI. III). 



Details of the tent-rings: 



No. 



Remarks 



663 



664 

 665 

 666 



8 i N. 

 5 N. 



1 meter above the sea, 5 me- 

 ters from beach. Small 

 and ordinary stones. 



Small and ordinary stones. 

 Small and ordinary' stones. 



2 meters above the sea, north 



side of spit ; 50 meters from 

 beach to the north and 20 

 meters from beach to the 

 west. Small and ordinär}- 

 stones. 



The temporary meat-store (667) w^as found 5 meters N. N.E. of 

 the tent-ring 663. It was circular, 050 M. in diameter and 0*50 M. 

 high, built of small stones. 



Apart from the above ruins, not a single trace of Eskimos was 

 left on the whole of the spit, not even a sign of bones. The whole 

 gave the impression of extreme poverty and solitariness. 



On a small reef lying off the coast, an oval, temporary meat- 

 store (668) 1-00 M. long and 050 M. broad was found. It lay 3 meters 



