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Fig. 104.Sketch of the village site Malerualik, King Williams Land. Made by Knud Rasmussen 1923.
1. The Malerualik Find.
The Settlement.

The following description of the settlement and the various house ruins at Malerualik has been drawn up on the basis of Knud Rasmussen's report:

Malerualik is a point on the south coast of King William's Land at Simpson Strait, between McClintock Bay and Douglass Bay; the name means "the place where one follows the caribou" and it is one of the most important passages for the caribou from the mainland to King William's Land; it is also a good sealing ground and also lies at the mouth of a good salmon river. At this place are the ruins of an Eskimo settlement of rather unusual dimensions.

Fig 104 is a sketch, drawn from the measurements made by

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