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lay withiD the grave itself: at the fourth, which evidently was 

 a child's grave , there lay a child's sledge on the top of 

 the grave under some flat stones. Several of the graves 

 were very neatly constructed. In one of the graves we 

 examined, the corpses seem to have lain fully dressed. We 

 found remains of hairv bear- and seal-skins and of dried 



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Fig. i. Ruins of an Eskimo house (No. 1) at Skjærgaards Halvö. 

 (Phot, by G.Amdrup.) 



skins. To the heads, which in other respects were mere 

 skeletons, long black hair still adhered. 



Round about the houses there lay bones in a high state 

 of putrefaction, and a number of old pieces of wood, all of 

 them of such an appearance as to leave no doubt that it must 

 have been much longer since human beings hved in Skjær- 

 gaards Halvö than in Nordre-Aputitek. 



XVI. On the little island of Dunholm, which was only 

 about 30 metres high, there were on the top of the island 

 not less than seven ruined houses, grouped in a ring about a 



