HOVEY, THE FOYER METEORITES 



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THE CAP?: YORK METEORITES, 



"Ahxighito," or "The Text," "The Woman" axd "The Dog." 



(Siderites.) 



For centuries, and perhaps for thousands of years, the three masses 

 of iron known as the Cape York meteorites lay on the north coast of 

 Melville Bay near Cape York, Greenland, but they were seen for the 

 first time by a white person, when they were visited by Commander 

 Robert E. Peary, U. S. N., in 1894 and 1895 under the guidance of 

 Tallakoteah, a member of the Eskimo tribe which up to the early part 



CAPE YORK. 



The Dog". Weighs 1100 pounds. 



of the nineteenth century had obtained material for knives and other 

 utensils from the masses. 



The three meteorites were known as a group to the Eskimo under the- 



