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Moravian mission-villages in South Greenland ; tlie people 

 of the Danish settlements and their neighbourhood, are for 

 the most part "Blandings," amongst whom the European 

 stamp prevails. Even in Nennortalik we saw girls 

 with flaxen hair, blue eyes, and delicate white com- 

 plexions ; the men's physiognomies, too, were far more 

 intelligent than in the full-blooded Greenlander ; here 

 and there we saw beards, though very scanty ones. 

 Owing to the thinly-scattered population of Greenland, 

 one must not be astonished at the striking mixture of the 

 European race which everywhere prevails ; and still less 

 so, when one takes into consideration that, owing to 

 circumstances, an intermingling of the natives with the 

 Europeans must occur ; the missionaries and the higher 

 civil ofiicers of the Danish colonies have European 

 wives, and their children are brought up in Europe. 

 Again, the lower servants — coopers, carpenters, oil- 

 melters, and so on — from their scanty earnings, are not 

 in a position to keep their families in European style : 

 circumstances compel them, accordingly, to marry in 

 Greenland. The issue of these marriages never have 

 the opportunity of being educated in Europe. In some 

 cases they are engaged by the Danish Government, or 

 some relations in their own country take them; but, 

 as I said before, few are so fortunate ; the greater 

 number remain in the country, adopting its customs, lan- 

 guage, dress, and manners of living, and retaining but 

 little signs of their descent beyond the features. I had 

 the opportunity of making acquaintance with the fourth 

 generation of a Danish family which had become entirely 

 Greenlandish. Considering this change in so short a 

 time, we can no longer wonder that, on his arrival in 



