№ the year 1884, Gustav Hozm, then First Lieutenant in the Danish 
Navy, landed in the Angmagsalik district for the purpose of wintering 
among an Eskimo tribe, concerning which nothing was known in Europe 
at that time. The event forms something of an epoch in the history 
of Danish arctic investigation. The discovery of Angmagsalik opened 
up a new and important field for research: the tribe in question, living 
untouched by eivilisation, had retained much which the Eskimos of 
Western Greenland had discarded during the course of close upon 200 
years of Danish influence, and had, on the other hand, developed in 
their isolation various peculiarities unknown to their kindred on the west. 
There was much to do, and much was done, that winter in Ang- 
magsalik: an extensive collection illustrative of native culture was brought 
home in the following year, and the results of the winter’s work were 
set forth in an exhaustive treatise!, cleverly and brightly written, and 
illustrated with numerous plates, the appearance of which deservedly 
aroused considerable remark. 
Despite the care and acumen exhibited in gathering together the 
original collection (now preserved in the National Museum at Copen- 
hagen) the material nevertheless naturally needed to be augmented here 
and there. Such supplementary material was also furnished, in consider- 
able quantity, by С. RYDER, who stayed for some time at Angmagsalik 
in September 1892, on his return from the expedition to Scoresby Sound?, 
A further unique addition was made to the collection by С. Ам- 
pRuP’s Expedition, 1898—1900. At Nualik, north of Angmagsalik, 
Lat. 67°15’5’ N.) the travellers came upon a house with furnishings and 
gear intact, while skeletal remains of the inmates scattered about out- 
side seemed to suggest that the entire family had perished simultaneously 
by some mischance, in all probability poison. On coming in to Angmag- 
salik, Capt. Amprup showed some of the implements found to natives 
1 С. Норм: Ethnologisk Skizze af Angmagsalikerne. 1887. (Meddelelser om 
Grønland vol. 10.) 
2 Cf. Meddelelser om Grønland vol. 17, p. 138 ff. 
