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Lady Franklin. On the western shore of Wellington Channel, 

 10 miles north of Barlow Inlet, the remains of three huts were 



found. 



7. Griffith Island. — I found the sites of four summer huts on 

 the western beach, with bones of birds in and around them, also 

 part of the runner of a sledge, a willow switch 2 feet 3 inches lo 

 and a piece of the bone of a whale, a foot long, marked with cuts 

 from some sharp instrument. Farther on, there were ruins of two 

 huts, and some fox-traps. 1 



8. Prince of Wales Island. — On the shores of the channel, 

 between Russell and Prince of Wales Island, there are ruins of 

 huts, with many bones, and on the shore of a deep inlet farther 

 west, there was an old Eskimo cache, containing bones of seals and 

 bears. 2 



9. North Somerset. — Ruined huts were found at Leopold Sound, 

 and still farther south by Allen Young, who also saw semicircular 

 Avails of very ancient date, used for watching reindeer. There are 

 now no inhabitants on North Somerset. 



10. North Devon. — Remains of Eskimo huts were found on < Jape 

 Spenser, Cape Riley, and in Radstock Bay. On a peninsula at the 

 enti'ance of Dundas Harbour, I found several huts with moss- 

 covered walls three feet high, a small recess on one side, and a space 

 for the entrance on the other. I also examined twelve tombs built 

 of limestone slabs, containing skeletons. 3 I am aware that Eskimos 

 belonging to the Pond's Bay tribe were afterwards met with at this 

 place by Captain Inglefield. They had come upon the depot which 

 was landed at Navy Board Inlet, on the opposite coast, by Mr. 

 Saunders, and had thence crossed over to Dundas Harbour, and 

 finding good hunting and fishing there, they had continued to visit, 

 it in the summer. But I still think that the stone huts and tombs 

 are the remains of a more ancient race. The Pond's Bay Eskimos, 

 like those of Boothia and Igloolik, farther south, pass the winter in 

 snow huts, and not in yourts of stone and earth. 4 



11. Jones Sound. — An Eskimo skull was picked up. 



12. CAREY Islands.— Several Eskimo caches of provisions were 

 found, in 1851, on one of the islands. 



We have thus been enabled to trace the routes taken by these 

 ancient wanderers in search of the means of sustaining lifo, step by 



1 'Blue Book,' p. 266. (Additional papers, 1852.) 



'-' Allen Xbung found remains of ^lum-.s I'm- keeping down Bummer huts ;ill 

 round the southern side of Prince <>r Wales Island. 

 •"' Markham's ' Franklin's Footsteps,' p. 61. 

 1 Parry's second voyagi i 



