332 Chr. Bendix Thostrup 



(743). A small tent-rinj^, formed of flat stones and with flat lamp-stone 

 in the middle of the ring." 



Hochstetter's Vorland (lat. 75° 28' long. 19' 27'). About 30 

 kilometers south of Haystack, Hochstetter's Vorland is cut through 

 by the bed of a large river. Off this part of the land there is un- 

 broken ice many years old, but both seals and bears were seen on 

 this old ice. On the flat beach north of the river-bed Jarner 

 found an oval tent-ring (744), formed of ordinary stones, ca. 300 M. 

 long and ca. 250 M. broad. The doorway was in the long axis of 

 the tent-ring. 



Muschelberg (lat. 75° 09', long. 19° 51'). Here 1 tent-ring, 2 

 shelters, 1 trap and 1 row of stones were found. 



Muschelberg lies furthest to the south on Hochstetter's Vorland. 

 On the eastern top of the hill, ca. 300 to 400 meters above the sea, 

 Jarner found a very large trap ^ (745), which was estimated to 

 be externally 075 M. high and Г50 M. broad at the base. It was 

 not built on rock, but on soft ground, and to prevent the booty 

 from getting out, the Eskimos here, instead of paving the bottom 

 as at other places, had piled up so many stones both above and 

 round about the trap, that it was impossible for the animal to dig 

 its way out. The stone-heap was so large, that Jarner was obliged 

 first of all to take away a number of them before he could see 

 that it was a trap. 



On the flat top above the trap was a row of ordinary stones 

 (746) extending like a string for 4 to 5 meters with ca. 020 M. 

 between the stones. 



Between the two parts of Muschelberg there is a river-bed 

 whose direction in the main is from north to south. It opens on 

 the south side of Hochstetter's Vorland. A circular tent-ring (747), 

 ca. 4- 50 M. in external .diameter w^as found on the beach west of 

 the mouth of the river ^'. Near the tent-ring were 2 shelters, one of 

 which was of very unusual size, ca. 3 M. long (748). It was built 

 of 4—5 layers of large stones up to a height of over 1 M. in the 

 middle and gradually sloping towards the ends. Its long axis was 

 parallel to the river and it formed a curve to the east, so that the 

 lying-place was on the west side. From the shelter, which was 

 but little conspicuous, there was an excellent view over the bed of 

 the river and the hunting country over the south slope of Muschel- 

 berg '. The second shelter (749) was much smaller. 



^ See further description Koldewey: I, p. 571. - See also Koldewey: I, pp. 

 571, 576. " Cf. Back: pp. 177, 187; Lyon: pp. 71,198; Parry: p. 234; IMc. Clin- 

 tock: p. 279; Steensby: p. HÜ4; G. Holm 2: p. 84; 3: pp. 296, 319; Knud Ras- 

 mussen 1 : p. 97. 



