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these only the upper stone had fallen down and lay in the 



interior of the building. The inner dimensions of the whole 



cairn were : 



Diameter at the bottom lom 



— 1 metre over bottom IS - 



Height 1-9 - 



In the interior of the cairn there lay a few fragments of 

 bone, probably animal bones. 



Dr. Norden skjold, who also landed at Кар Tobin, 

 believed from Koch's description of the cairns that they were 

 analogous with three others which he had found further 

 north. 



In the vicinity of the two cairns close to the settlement 

 there were ten fox-traps, about 1 metre in length and 15 cm 

 in depth and width (inner measurement)." — 



It will be seen that house No. Ill presents the peculiar 

 characteristic that there were two passage-ways, a short and a 

 long one, and that a kind of little front chamber was formed 

 by the wall ABC. Koch observes that this wall did not 

 seem to lead to the interior of the house, but that an excava- 

 tion might possibly have brought such a thoroughfare to 

 light. 



My personal opinion, however, is that the house must 

 originally have had only one passage-way, viz. the long one, 

 while the short passage-way and the wall ABC must have been 

 constructed after the house had ceased to be lived in. The little 

 chamber that was thus formed was presumably used as a 

 cache, or as a work-shop, and accordingly had no thoroughfare 

 to the interior of the house. 



Thus at Nualik I found close to the "dead house" (men- 

 tioned above) a small covered chamber built up the side of a 

 perpendicular rocky wall, having about the same dimensions as 

 the above. On the floor there lay a number of comparatively 

 fre.sh and unbleached shavings of wood, as well as a few newly 

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