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that the female birds had all begun to change their plumage, while the 
male birds were as yet quite white. The first falcon was seen on May 9th. 
The largest amount of any species of animals found on Pendulum 
Island were hares, which were seen in surprising numbers, particularly 
on the south end of the island in a large, sheltered valley. The hares 
lived in flocks, most of which counted twenty animals or more, and 
several flocks were seen at the same time. When frightened they all 
ran towards the highland, even if we were standing above them. 
Several traces of musk-ox were seen on the island, but we met 
none of the animals themselves, although we walked all over the island. 
During our rambles on Pendulum Island and Bass Rock we found 
very many traces of former Eskimo inhabitants, particularly on Bass 
Rock where remains were found in all level places. Meat-câches, built 
up with great care, were found in large numbers just north of our house, 
and chips, shavings, feathers, hair and bones were found in them and in 
one case even about 1 meter of walrus-spine, where the sinews still bound 
the vortex together. A few tent-rings were seen close by our house. 
More remains were found on the SE point of Bass Rock, 1. e. meat- 
caches, as well as hunting shelters and nine tent-rings, besides two graves, 
in which, however, we could find no skeletons, but the graves were opened, 
and the skeletons might have been removed by the members of former 
expeditions. Wherever we found stones collected by the Eskimos, we 
removed them in our search for implements, but the result was of no 
importance whatsoever, and we only found a few spearheads, some bone 
arrows and small pieces of wood or bone, in which holes had been bored 
as well as pieces of an ivory sledge-runner. On the few level gravel-beds 
we found some few implements, evidently dropped by accident, but 
nothing of any importance. 
A third cluster of tent-rings, meat-cäches, shelters etc. were found 
on a low, level gravel-beach on the west coast of Bass Rock, and also 
some almost complete skeletons of narwhal and walrus, but no im- 
plements of any kind. 
The Eskimos have, however, only lived on Bass Rock during the 
summer, and their winter-houses were situated on Pendulum Island, in 
a small bight to the south of Cape Hartlaub. There were the remains 
of six houses in all, but the winter-place must have been used at widely 
different periods, as two of the houses were much older than the other 
four. The ruins were, however, so old that they had collapsed entirely 
and were covered with vegetation. The turf covering the ruins was 
frozen as far as we could cross to Pendulum Island from Bass Rock, 
and we were thus unable to dig out the ruins. No meat-cäches or any 
other artificially erected stone-structures were found in the immediate 
vicinity of these houses, but many of these, as well as fox-traps, were 
seen near Cape Hartlaub. 
The time which we spent on Bass Rock awaiting the arrival of a 
