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XII. On the other hand, the three houses on the East 

 point of the island between Кар Warming and Langöen 

 were undoubtedly of some antiquity. One of them was fairly 

 large and the two others pretty small. One of the two tent- 

 rings which we saw here was somewhat peculiar, as it was 

 formed like a stone rampart. 



XIII. The settlement at Nualik is of unusual interest, 

 as we here chanced upon an extinct Eskimo colony. Among 

 the four houses which were found here, there was one which 

 was in such a good state of preservation, that with a few slight 

 repairs it might almost immediately have been used to live in 

 (Fig. I). All the walls were completely preserved, and likewise 

 the passage-way, except the first metre of it. Only the roof had 

 partially fallen in. The house lay in a valley extending across 

 the little narrow peninsula between the Kruuses and Solos 

 Fjords. It was built up along an evenly sloping surface of 

 rock, and the mode of construction was quite the same as 

 that which is used in the Angmagsalik District^). The 

 walls were of stone and sods. From one of the side-walls to 

 the other there lay a heavy block of drift-timber resting on 

 wooden supports in the interior of the house. Between this 

 cross-beam and the front and hind walls there lay other 

 beams of drift-timber. Above the whole rafter-work had been 

 laid thick sods covered with skins. In the front walls there 

 were three window openings. The passage-way struck out 

 almost at right angles to the front wall, somewhat nearer to 

 one of the side-walls than to the other. 



The entrance to the house lay through the passage-way, 

 which was 7 metres in length and 1 metre in height and the 

 bottom of which lay about half a metre below the floor of 

 the house. 



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