427 



Scoresby's Expedition, like Cape Stewart, — which lies a 

 little further in by Hurry Inlet —, where Scoresby in 1822 dis- 

 covered an extinct Eskimo village of 10 tents ^). The settlement 

 at Cape Stewart was afterwards more thoroughly investigated 

 by Ryder (in 1891—92)2), and then again in 1899 by Nathorst. 

 The settlement at Cape Tobin, which lies on the point of land 

 which projects furthest out into the sea at the mouth of the 

 great fjord, in the interior of which, as Ryder has proved, the 

 Eskimo lived in ancient times in many different places, had 

 DOt been previously investigated, when the Carlsberg Fond Ex- 

 pedition in 1900 made this find there. 



The settlements at Dunholm and at Cape Tobin lie so 

 close to each other, and the objects found supplement each 

 other so well, that I have not deemed it needful to keep the 

 descriptions of them apart. Taken together, they give — 

 particularly when we bear in mind the harpoon heads (inv. 

 Amd. If 2^ and 5, from Cape Tobin) and the longer weapon 

 heads (inv. Amd. 12, 13, 14, 15 from Dunholm, inv. Amd. 16, 

 17, 18 from Cape Tobin) described above — a fairly complete 

 picture of the hunting life of the Eskimo, the men's hunting 

 expeditions on the fjord ice, the work, finery and games of the 

 women and children in the hut or in the tent, by the hearth 

 fire or outdoors. 



Inv. Amd. 65 (Fig. 38) and 66 (Fig. 39). it is most charac- 

 teristic of the manner in which the Eskimo carried on their 

 seal-hunting in this fjord, that two fine specimens of sealing- 

 slools, of the kind the Eskimo use in hunting seals out on the 

 ice, were found at the very mouth of the fjord. We gather 

 from this that the method of sealing adopted during the long 

 and dreary winter season was to repair to the seal's air-hole 



') Scoresby, Journal 1822, p. 208. 

 *) Ryder 285—288. 



