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between Кар G. Holm and Кар Jørgensen, sloping 

 steeply down to the sea. Here we do not find any Eskimo 

 remains. The stretch between Кар Jørgensen and Søndre- 

 Aputitek again presents tolerably favourable conditions for 

 Eskimo existence, and in fact we find here a number of ruins 

 of houses, tent encampments, graves etc., yet by no means so 

 numerous as further south. From Søndre-Aputitek right 

 up to Kangerdlugsuak the «inland-ice» reaches right out 

 to sea and we could conceive of Eskimo living only on the 

 islands of Patuterajuit and Nordre-Aputitek; and we 

 actually found ruins of houses in the latter island. On the 

 other hand it is improbable that Eskimo have ever lived in 

 the interior of the great fiord Kangerdlugs^uak. On the 

 9th Aug. 1900 we made an attempt to penetrate into the fiord, 

 but a little inside the mouth we were prevented from carrying out 

 our enterprise by icebergs, calf ice, ice-floes and "small-ice". At 

 the mouth of the fiord and outside it we found favourable con- 

 ditions as regards ice ; hence we must assume that the fiord is 

 as a rule filled with masses of ice. On the other hand, on the 

 East side of the fiord close by the mouth we lighted upon quite 

 a large Eskimo settlement on the so-called Skaergaards 

 Halvö. On the stretch of coast from Kangerdlugsuak to 

 Кар Dalton the coast as a whole presents very unfavour- 

 able conditions for the Eskimo. The fiords here are as a rule 

 not particularly deep. Many of them are filled with calf ice 

 from the mighty glaciers which flow into them, proceeding, no 

 doubt, from the "inland-ice". And along the whole stretch of 

 coast there is only a single little island — and that inaccessible. 

 Nor did we find during our travels along this coast a single 

 vestige of the Eskimo having lived here or travelled along it. 

 It ought, however, to be borne in mind that we had no op- 

 portunity of making anything like a thorough investigation of 

 the fiords, many of which looked by no means uninviting, as 

 the short time at our disposal and the circumstances of the 



