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of Cape Simpson, they observed several dozens of 
old huts and ground-plots of summer tents. A 
lamp, of the kind commonly used by the Esqui¬ 
maux, was picked up by one of the Trafalgar’s 
sailors. Our people found a great many frag¬ 
ments of bones, pierced with holes, that had evi¬ 
dently been used for the keels of sledges. These 
consisted of slices of the bones of whales, and of 
the horns or teeth of narwals. One piece of the 
latter was nearly two feet in length ; and another 
fragment, not quite so long, measured 2f inches 
in diameter. It was observable that these, like 
former specimens met with, had been divided lon¬ 
gitudinally, by drilling two rows of contiguous 
holes through the substance of the bone, begin¬ 
ning at opposite sides, and then split asunder. 
It appeared also, that, after this operation, the 
segments had been roughly dressed by a kind of 
axe, or other cutting instrument, by which the 
surface was marked and tom. These bones were 
all Hat on one side, and convex or semi-cylindri¬ 
cal on the other: the flat side was evidently de¬ 
signed to be applied to the sledge, and the con¬ 
vex side to the friction of the ground. The great 
quantity of these fragments intimated, not only 
that the inhabitants had once been numerous 
here, but that they must make great use of their 
sledges, to afford so many pieces of these half worn 
