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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE MIRANDA. 



scraped from the sides of a friendly rock, over which are 

 mounded stones of various sizes to keep the body from wild 

 beasts, and serve as a monument. In examining illustration 

 No. 3 the reader will observe that the graves are simply 



- stone mounds. We found in 

 all of the old graves only skulls, 

 securing five in good condition 

 in one mound, and no other 

 bones. A fine collection was 

 gathered, but it went down 

 with the Miranda. 



There are exceptions to the 

 average mound, as may be 

 noted by illustra- 

 tion 4. The Danes, 

 who are in control 

 of all the Greenland 

 coast below Melville 

 >iiy, have a wooden 

 enclosure surround- 

 ing their graves, the 

 wood being brought 

 from Denmark; and 

 I .V ' ^^^Bf^ijM^^^^^ wooden crosses 



Hp "'^^I^^&IsHIH^H mark the graves of 



the more favored or 



No. 5.— LUTHERAN CHURCH. i , , , . « ,. 



better portion of the 

 Eskimos. All the other graves, filled with the poor, 

 simple children of the frozen north, have no other monu- 

 ment than a heap of stones, which in a later day is 

 overturned by some explorer in search of human frames 

 in the interest of science. This brief article cannot give 

 the reader my thoughts fully as I contemplated this God's 

 acre. Here are the bones of human beings, some of 



