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these in other regions.^ There are remains of caches too, heaps of stones that 

 have covered meat or blubber or clothing to protect them from the wolverines 

 and foxes. Near Bernard harbour there were many remains of all these kinds. 

 Some of the rings were very small and may simply have been weights to hold 



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Fig. 29. Stone rings on an old camp site near Bernard harbour 



down drying deerskins; others were plainly7tent-rings, for there were hearth- 

 stones close beside them. Often not far away were large overturned boulders 

 to which the natives had fastened their dogs. The plans and dimensions of 

 some of those rings are given in Fig. 29. 



>Cf . McClintock, p. 168, et passim; Parry, Vol. I, p. 70f. 



