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compactly and carefully built; the floorplace on the other hand was 

 very uneven. 



The 3 temporary meat-stores lying furthest to the north (675, 

 676 and 677) were 1 to 2 meters above the sea. They were circular, 

 0-50 to 100 M. in diameter and were formed of large stones, which 

 occurred in quantities in the neighbourhood. 



The 2 permanent meat-depots (681 and 682) were oval and lay 

 ca. 1 meter above the sea. The walls here were carefully built of, in 

 part, unusually large stones. The one (681) was Г50 M. long and 

 0-80 M. broad; the second 170 M. long and 137 M. broad. The 

 height of both was 050 to 100 M. 



The grave (674) consisted of an empty, stone chamber, which 

 for back wall had an erratic stone boulder ca. 1 M. high. The Green- 

 landers Hendrik Olsen and Tobias Gabrielsen, when they showed 

 me this ruin, told me that it was a human grave, but I had great 

 doubts about their story as it appeared to me simply a heaped-up 

 mass of stones. I saw later, however, that they were right, as 

 on closer examination I found under a heap of small stones some 

 large covering stones and under these again a regularly built, 

 four-sided stone-chamber, 096 M. long, ОЗэ M. broad and 0-63 M. 

 high. As already remarked, the chamber was quite empty, con- 

 taining neither body nor grave-articles, but the grave showed 

 absolutely no signs of having been disturbed. 



Along the bay here, just as at the tenting-ground on the spit, 

 no other sign of earlier life was found than just the bare ruins, and 

 here also an impression was borne in upon us of the absolute soli- 

 tariness and deepest poverty of the human beings, who at one time 

 lived on this spot. The hunters have probably carried on the bear 

 and seal hunting here, far from the settlements; the booty has first 

 been placed in the small meat-stores near the shelters, when the 

 hunters had returned from the hunt for rest, and then afterwards 

 in the 2 permanent meat-depots. These have thus held the common 

 supplies, and were emptied at the time when the hunting station 

 was abandoned. 



Paaskenæsset (lat. 76° 10', long. 19° 50'). 



Paaskenæsset is a point ca. 10 meters high, which lies north of 

 Кар Carl Ritter ^; here 5 tent-rings, 3 temporary meat-stores and 1 

 structure made by children were found, but otherwise nothing what- 

 soever of bones, instruments or the like, though the tenting ground 



' Tent-rings have been found before on the soutli side of Кар Carl Ritter ; see 

 Koldkwey: I, p. 488; Peterm. Mitth.: 1871, p. 190 (erroneously called Кар ArendtsI 

 and Nathorst: pp. 340 — 341. 



