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in forms from Ponds Bay; small figures of bone like these found at 

 Snenæs and Rypefjeldet were brought home by Sverdrup from Sten- 

 kulsfj orden in Kong Oscars Land, and hunting stools like those from 

 Cape Tobin have been found in Heibergs Land and Grinnell Land. 



Gunnar Isachsen, cartographer to the Sverdrup Expedition of 

 1898 — 1902, has,^ on the basis of the important discoveries made by 

 that expedition, charted the supposed route followed by the Eskimo 

 on their wanderings through the newly found country up towards 

 Greenland. Since then, however, these theories have been opposed by 

 Hermann G. Simmons,^ the botanist of the expedition, inter alia on 

 the grounds that our knowledge, especially as to the western parts of 

 the newly discovered region, is still inadequate. In face of this 

 warning from a man able to speak from personal experience, it 

 would doubtless be unwise to take up the question for discussion 

 in these pages, the more so since the data on which my work must 

 be based, viz; the implements found, are only extremely few in 

 number. I will therefore merely point out that the shape of the 

 houses is the same as in North-east Greenland.-^ 



I must also refrain from dwelling on the various hypotheses 

 which have been advanced by several distinguished investigators 

 and scientists with regard to the migration routes of the Eskimos 

 in Greenland itself; the theories in question may be taken as gene- 

 rally known, and lie outside the scope of the present work. I have 

 here been concerned solely with the finds, and it is on these alone 

 that my conclusions have been based. It is to be hoped that further 

 expeditions will in the near future augment the material from the 

 regions west of Greenland, and thus furnish opportunity for continu- 

 ing the work already commenced on the basis of the rich material 

 brought to light by the Danmark Expedition. 



1 Petermann's Mitteilungen Vol. 49, p. 150 — 51. 



2 Ymer, Vol.25, p. 173 ff. 



3 cf. Simmons, loc. cit., p. 190—91. 



