54 VOYAGE TO THE POLAR SEA. July 



Many relics from the ' Polaris ' were lying about, such 

 as clothes, pieces of books, ice-chisels, fish-hooks, and 

 bottles. A large amount of seal and walrus-blubber 

 was cached in the neighbourhood. A dog-sledge made 

 entirely of bone, with runners ingeniously constructed 

 of pieces of tusk of the walrus, was found hidden in a 

 cleft of the rock ; it was of course not interfered with. 

 Arrows were found in the Eskimo huts and in the 

 neighbourhood. 



The remains of numerous ancient settlements are 

 scattered along the shore between Jensen Point and 

 the village of Etah ; the sites are marked by enormous 

 quantities of bones lying around, which speaks forcibly 

 to the animal wealth of this neighbourhood. It would 

 be difficult to assign any definite age to these remains, 

 but evidently Port Foulke must have been a favourite 

 and productive station of the natives for a long course 

 of years. Eeindeer and walrus bones were the most 

 prominent in these kitchen-middens. It was remarked 

 that all the bones of the deer which contained marrow 

 had been split, the crania had been broken in through 

 the front of the skull, and sometimes the base had 

 been knocked off, in order to render easy the extrac- 

 tion of the brain. Eemains of seals were very abun- 

 dant, with bones of foxes and hares, also thousands of 

 the sterna of little auks. 



The cliffs on both sides of Foulke Fiord present 

 bold escarpments, and are a continuation of the strata 

 which form Cape Alexander. 



These formations, which consist of various coloured 

 sandstones abounding in ripple marks and inter- 

 bedded with traps and basalts rest unconformably 



