. The last cruise of the Miranda [microform] : a record of Arctic adventure. Miranda (Ship); Miranda (Navire); Natural history; Inuit; Sciences naturelles; Inuit. 184 TIIK CRUISi: OF THE MIRANDA. I. ' IS Mill -!l(" ! ! scnipetl from the sides of a friendly rock, over whicli are mounded stones of various sizes to keep tlie body from wild beasts, and serve as a monument. In examining illustration No. 3 the reader will observe that the graves are simply -, stone mounds. "We found in all of the old graves only skulls, securing five in good condition in one mound, and no other. bon
. The last cruise of the Miranda [microform] : a record of Arctic adventure. Miranda (Ship); Miranda (Navire); Natural history; Inuit; Sciences naturelles; Inuit. 184 TIIK CRUISi: OF THE MIRANDA. I. ' IS Mill -!l(" ! ! scnipetl from the sides of a friendly rock, over whicli are mounded stones of various sizes to keep tlie body from wild beasts, and serve as a monument. In examining illustration No. 3 the reader will observe that the graves are simply -, stone mounds. "We found in all of the old graves only skulls, securing five in good condition in one mound, and no other. bones. A fine collection was gathered, but it went down with tlie Miranda, There are exceptions to the average mound, as may be noted by illustra- Moii 4. The Danes, who are in control of all the Greenland coast below ]\I,elville Bay, have a Avooden enclosure surround- ing their graves, the wood being brought from Denmark; and wooden crosses mark the grnves of the more favored or better portion of the Eskimos. All the other graves, filled with the poor, si'uple children of the frozen north, have no other monu- ment than a heap of stones, which in a later day is overturned by some explorer in search of human frames in the interest of science. This brief article cannot give the reader my thoughts fully as I contemplated this God's acre. Here are the bones of human beings, some of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Walsh, Henry Collins, 1863-1927. New York; London : Transatlantic Pub. Co.
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