342 Chr. Bendix Thostrup 



has never lived in North-East Greenland north of Jøkelbugten, 

 and if the Eskimos of the second-last period have been specially 

 reindeer hunters, this fact will naturally have great importance in 

 connection with the theories of immigration, assuming of course 

 that these Eskimos have followed the movements of the reindeer 

 herds northward along the east coast of Greenland to lat. 77° — 78°. 



The near relationship which the second-last Eskimos have had 

 to subarctic culture (women's boats and kayaks) seems also to 

 suggest, that their immigration has taken place from the south; we 

 can hardly believe either, that the Кар Bismarck district, with its 

 icy covering for three quarters of the year, would give rise to a 

 distinctly subarctic culture among a sledging people coming from 

 the north. On the contrary, the natural conditions here are such, 

 that a race coming from the south would rather change over from 

 a subarctic to an arctic culture at this place. 



In the district still inhabited, Angmagsalik, we know only from 

 tales that some of the natives there have journeyed towards the 

 north, and in one case^ we can follow these to their destruction, 

 but at another place ^ we read that 



"the posterity of those natives, who journeyed northwards from Ang- 

 magsalik, have passed over Kangerdlugsuak and proceeded further north, 

 where they perhaps still live." 



The last or youngest Eskimos, 3rd immigration. The 

 most recent inhabitants of the Кар Bismarck district can hardly 

 be said to represent an independent, new immigration, because they 

 only include a couple of families. 



Summary. Without going any deeper into the subject of the 

 possible lines of immigration, I may in concluding just summarize 

 the following, actual conditions : 



(i) Кар Bismarck district has been occupied at three separate times, 

 with a very long interval between the two first. 



{2J The oldest Eskimo winter-houses are only found north of lat. 77°. 



^3J The younger Eskimo winter-houses are only found south of 

 lat. IT. 



fh^J No winter-houses are found, which form the transition between 

 the oldest and the younger winter-houses. 



(Ъ) The later Eskimos haue had the custom of burying their dead, 

 whilst no graves have been found from the period of the oldest Eskimos. 



(6) The oldest Eskimos have carried on the musk-ox hunting at 

 Sælsøen on an extensive scale. 



PJ The later Eskimos have hunted the reindeer. 



1 Cf. Holm 2: p. 56; Amdrup 1: pp. 93—95, 253; Amdrup 2: pp. 291, 29(5, 303 11 

 • and Thalbitzur : p. 342. - Holm 1 : p. 222. 



