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ment with the distribution of the ruins, I have indicated on 

 the accompanying chart, where the distribution of the musk-ox 

 is given after A. G. Nathorst \ the main route along which the 

 Eskimo bands in pursuit of the musk-ox may be considered to 

 have been enticed further and further away from the American 

 continent. Some have gone westwards along the south coasts 

 of the Parry Islands, but the main body has gone up to EUes- 

 mere Land, and there is now — after that the Danish "Dan- 

 mark" Expedition under Mylius Erichsen has proved the occur- 

 rence of Eskimo remains right up to the Peary Channel on 

 the north coast of Greenland — no ground to doubt that they 

 have continued their journey northward round Greenland to the 

 north-east coast. For the rest, G. Holm long ago maintained 

 this migration north round Greenland, and later it has been 

 supported by G. Ryder and G. Amdrup on the basis of observa- 

 tions made on their expeditions respectively to Scoresby Sound 

 in 1891 — 92 and to the coast between Angmagsalik and Scoresby 

 Sound in 1898—99 and 1900. 



As further support for the view, that these North-East 

 Greenlanders have been musk-ox hunters, we have the follow- 

 ing information, which I have received through the kindness 

 of Mr. C. B. Thostrup, who took over the ethnological investiga- 

 tions on the "Danmark" Expedition after the death of Mylius 

 Erichsen. "There is no doubt, that the Eskimos have carried 

 on the musk-ox hunting on a large scale at several places, for 

 example, at Saelsö at the head of Dove Bay [i. e. ca. 77° N. B.J 

 — evidence of this is found in the many, large food-depots 

 and the bones in them, which were almost exclusively those 

 of Ovibos moschatus. A number of bones were brought home 

 from the remains of the Eskimo buildings and their determina- 



Eskimos (Zeitschrift der Ges. für Erdiiunde, Vol. 18, Berlin 1883); 

 С R. Markham, On the origin and migrations of the Greenlander 

 Esquimaux (Journ. Roy. Geogr. Soc Vol. 35. 1865). 

 Två Somrar i Norra Ishafvet. Stockholm 1900. Vol. II. 



