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immigration to the East coast of Greenland took place from 

 the North may be mentioned Schultz Lorentzen^), H. Sim- 

 mon s^) and A. Ham berg''), while Fridtjof Nansen main- 

 tains the opposite view^). 



That neither Lockwood'') nor Pejary^), the only two 

 explorers who have visited the North coast, have found traces 

 of Eskimo habitation proves nothing, us both of them travelled 

 on the sea-ice along the outer coast. For, if a journey 

 was made in a similar manner, e. g. from Sabine-Ö to 

 Scoresby Sund, a stretch which is quite as long as 

 Peary's longest sledge-journey, no traces of Eskimo habitation 

 would be found. And yet we know that in the fjords along 

 this stretch a busy Eskimo life has prevailed. 



1 shall now conclude with a few words as to the tent-rings 

 and graves which we found on the stretch between Angmag- 

 salik and Scoresby Sund. 



The tent-rings did not present any points of interest. On 

 a flat and even site there lay in a circle the stones which had 

 once served as weights to keep down the part of the tent-skin 

 which lay on the ground. Only one of the tent-rings on the 

 East point of the island between Кар Warming and 

 Langö formed an exception, being built in the form of a low 

 rampart of earth and stones. G. Holm mentions that this form 

 of tent-ring is occasionally used in the An gmagsalik District. 

 It will thus be seen that the tent-rings we discovered were 

 of exactly the same nature as those in the Angmagsalik 

 District''! and Scoresby Sund^), as indeed might have 

 been expected. 



») Meddelelser om Grenland. Vol. XXVI. P. 289. 



*) Ymer 1905. P. 186. 



3) Ymer 1907. P. 22. 



*) F.Nansen. Eskimoliv. P. 12. 



*) Greely. Three years of arctic service. Vol. I. P. 29.5—347. 



*) Bulletin of the geocraphical society of Philadelphia. January 1904. 



') Meddeleleer om Grenland. Vol. X. P. 71. 



•) — - Vol. XVII. P. 303. 



