The Angmagsalik Eskimo. 389 
of models and toy weapons among real implements intended for use, 
without any statement as to this being the case, and erroneous statements 
as to the material of which the objeets were made. To avoid wearying 
the reader with unnecessary quotations, we may here once and for all 
refer to the list given in the following (p. 426 ff.) of such mistakes as 
have been discovered. Only such errors as demand more detailed treat- 
ment will be specially dealt with here. 
TREATMENT OF THE AUTHORITIES QUOTED. 
If the extent to which the Author has had recourse to the Museum 
is but slight, it must be admitted that the number of previously published 
works called into requisition for the compilation of the volume in question 
is by no means inconsiderable. The Author even devotes a separate 
chapter to consideration of the older literature concerning the Eskimo 
of Davis Straits", This is perhaps somewhat of a digression from the 
actual object of the work, but will doubtless be welcomed by foreign 
readers, to whom the unpublished part at least of such documents would 
hardly be known. And for this very reason it is extremely likely that 
the chapter in question will be frequently quoted. It may therefore 
not be out of place to offer some remarks as to the four least known 
works there referred to. 
With regard to OLteartus, Mr. THALBITZER states? that “the three 
Greenlanders brought to Copenhagen .. were sent to the king .... at 
Gottorp”. In Note 2 on the same page, we read that “a contemporary 
painting of the four Greenlanders going from Greenland via Thrond- 
hjem, where the picture was painted, to Copenhagen, is found in the 
National Museum of Copenhagen”. 
This discrepancy in the figures, at which the reader naturally won- 
ders, is due to the fact that one of the Greenlanders in question, the 
only male of the party, died on the way from Norway, and thus never 
reached Copenhagen at all. With regard to this note, it only remains 
to add that the king was not at Gottorp, but at Flensborg, whence 
he gave orders for the three Greenlanders to be sent to the Duke of 
Gottorp, “weil selbige auch sonderlich belieben tragen zu sehen, was 
Gott und die Natur an so fern abgelegenen Orten gibt und zeuget”. 
The party had, moreover, travelled, not by way of Throndhjem, but 
via Bergen, where the picture was painted — which fact, by the way, 
the Author has himself referred to in an earlier part of the work®. 
The next work quoted is DE Porney’s report of Nıcoras TUNES’ 
1 THALB. II, р. 682—85. 
Вр. 682; 
2 le. pP. 486. 
