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their way through the belt of ice in July 1900^). Here Lieu- 

 tenant Amdrup, together with Søren Nielsen, excavated an old 

 Eskimo winter house and found a few extremely interesting im- 

 plements, or fragments of them. The place, by the way, is 

 one of the places which have been most visited by Europeans 

 on this part of the coast. Clavering and Sabine had landed 

 here in their time. One of the vessels of the German North 

 Pole Expedition, Germania, wintered afterwards in a little bay 

 off this island. In the report^) of this Ex- 

 pedition we find a sketch of the Eskimo 

 settlement, the ruins of which still exist 

 here, and it is mentioned that on the south 

 side of the island east of the ruins 10 

 graves lie. Half of them at that time had 

 not been tampered with, the stones of the 

 others were scattered all about. "The fact 

 that the graves had been opened and robbed 

 of their contents seemed to us", so the 

 report runs, "to indicate the former pre- 

 sence of civilized men". The English Ex- 

 pedition had presumably already made exca- 

 vations here. However, the only traces of 

 Europeans which were found was the half 

 оГа wooden im- 0^ ^ porter bottle 3). — Thirty years later, 

 plement. Sabine the Swedish Expedition under Nathorst 

 ^' landed on this island, the year before the 

 Danish. It is thus evident that even in the places in East 

 Greenland previously visited by the Expeditions, an archæolo- 

 gical investigation would have some prospects of discovering 

 still more Eskimo remains. 



Inv. Amd. 99 (Fig. 63), from Sabine Island, is a shaft- 



Fragment 



^) Amdrup, ibid. 146—147. 

 2) Koldewey 589 and 590. 

 ") id. 597. 



