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Greenland double bladder, judging from the figures, is not greater than that 

 of the large North Greenland bladder. 



To page 166. 



I have subsequently seen a large number of reserve lances from the 

 islands in Disco Bay. It appears that the majority of them have the two 

 small lines fastened in a manner somewhat different from that shown in my 

 Fig. 25, A. The bone piece is more cylindrical than in Fig. 25, A ; and at 

 the strongest point, midway between the socket for the foreshaft and the 

 sht for the blade, there is a complicated system of boring which consists of 

 four holes two on each side of the plane of the blade. From these holes 

 grooves lead down towards the basal edge, and two small lines are spliced 

 in a loop through the holes, one on each side. One specimen had a simple 

 boring, enlarged on one side for the reception of a large knot ; it has conse- 

 quently been fastened with one line only. 



They vary in size being from 8 to 13 cm. long, and in the majority 

 the blade is relatively broader than in the specimen figured in the present work. 



To page 181. 



Steensby, in the paper mentioned above, has been able entirely to 

 unravel the history of the drift rudder and to estabhsh the fact that the 

 shooting screen must have been developed by remodelling the far older shooting 

 screen for hunting on ice. Of this view, which is in accordance with the 

 opinion expressed by me on p. 181, I have additional proof. Among the 

 shooting screens which occurred on the kayaks I examined on Hunde Eiland 

 on the occasion mentioned above, there were two in which the tâlutarfik was 

 shaped like a veritable little sledge, which, with the exception of its size, 

 differed from the small sledge for the shooting screen for hunting on ice, 

 only in having its runners bent inwards towards each other at the bottom, 

 to fit the fore end of the kayak. These two specimens belonged to two of 

 the oldest hunters, and one of them explained to me that they were 

 thus in old days; while now, one was content with a simple wooden 

 block with a dovetailed slot, because it was easier to make, and served the 

 same purpose. 



The Greenland editor, Lars Møller, in the article cited by Steensby, 

 also says expressively (p. 142) that the shooting screen is mounted on "a 

 kind of a small sledge." In the original stands qanmtaussaq "something like 

 a sledge" which is just the technical term for the shooting sledge for hunt- 

 ing on ice. 



To page 211. 



Thalbitzer, on p. 679, mentions that I have comprised all the Eskimo 

 Ulo-forms within three main types, but I regret that he does not mention 

 the technological reasons I had for doing so. According to Thalbitzer it 

 appears that Solberg, whose work is unfortunately inaccessible to me, main- 

 tains that stone implements, which had formerly served as Ulos are wanting 

 in West Greenland. This statement, if made, is wrong, and must be due 

 to deficient material. Sector or quadrant shaped pieces sharpened along the 

 curved edge are by no means rare, and lately I saw — in a collection be- 

 longing to another — a large crescent shaped Ulo-blade of grey porcelain 

 jasper. It was 9 cm. in length, but one end was broken off, so that its 

 entire length had been about 11 cm. In the middle it was 2.6 cm. broad. 

 It had been poUshed on both sides, from slightly above the middle down 



