170 VESTIGES ON THE PARKY ISLANDS. 



of Bridport Inlet. 1 Near Point Roche, a piece of drift timber was 

 seen by Vesey Hamilton, standing upright on the summit of a low, 

 flat-topped hill, about 300 yards from the sea, and 60 feet above its 

 level, but no signs of an Eskimo encampment were found near it. 

 The ground was covered with snow. The drift timber was 6 inches 

 in diameter, and was sticking up about 4 feet out of the ground, 

 being conspicuously placed, as if for a mark. 2 



3. Byam Martin Island. — Near Cape Gillman there were bones 

 of an ox, and jaws of a bear, and on the east shore General Sabine 

 .saw six ruined huts and an antler. 3 



4. Bathurst Island. — To the eastward of Allison Inlet there 

 were seven huts, some circles of moss-covered stones, and, a few 

 miles to the west, another hut. On the west side of Bedford Bay 

 there were six huts, and some circles of stones, of great age. On 

 Cape Capel McClintock examined ten winter habitations, and the 

 bones of bears and seals, some of them cut with a sharp instrument. 

 From various circumstances he was led to believe that none of these 

 huts have been inhabited within the last 200 years. The general 

 form of the huts is oval, with an extended opening atone end. They 

 are 7 feet long by 10, and are roofed over with stones and earth, 

 supported by bones of whales. 4 



5. Cornwallis Island. — At the western entrance of McDougall 

 Ba} r there are some very ancient Eskimo encampments. 5 On an 

 islet in Becher Bay I found three moss-covered circles of stones, 

 the sites of summer tents, and a portion of the runner of a sledge. 

 West of Cape Martyr there are numerous sites of summer tents, 

 with heaps of bones of birds, and some very perfect stone fox-traps. 

 On the eastern side of Cape Martyr, Osborn carefully examined a 

 winter hut. Its circumference was 20 feet, and the height of the 

 remaining wall 5 feet G inches. 6 The walls were overgrown with 

 moss, and much skill was displayed in the arrangement of the slabs 

 of slaty limestone. Farther to the eastward I found traces of an 

 extensive winter settlement, a neat grave of limestone, and many 

 heaps of bones. The whole coast is strewn with remains from 

 Cape Martyr to Cape Hothani, and there are several on Cape Hotham 

 itself. 



6. Wellington Channel. — Extensive Eskimo remains, of com- 

 paratively modern date, as compared with those at Melville Island, 

 were found on the extreme eastern shore, beyond Northumberland 

 Sound; and an Eskimo lamp was lying on the beach near Cape 



1 Parry's first voyage. - 'Blue Book,' p. 625. (Further papers. 1S55.) 



3 Parry's first voyage. 4 'Blue Book,' p. 188. (Additional papers, 1852.) 



5 Ibid", p. 278. ' 6 Osborn's ' Stray Leaves,' p. 143. 



