454 WILLIAM THALBITZER. 
down to us through the medium of the author of a work on the West 
Indies. Less doubt, however, would naturally attach to the figure giving 
the more detailed indication, the more so when this corresponds to a 
spot far easier of access by sea than the more northerly one which Hr. 
THOMSEN prefers. “64° 10°” would correspond exactly to the position 
of Godthaab, the principal landing place in South Greenland, whereas 
“72°” would be Upernawik, the farthest Danish colony to the North, 
where only comparatively few ships touch. It may be uncertain whether 
DE Porncy’s authority did land at 72° N. lat, but there is some reason 
to believe that he landed from Godthaab Fjord, and saw the objects 
described with his own eyes. 
р. 39019, — “... that he (Mr. THALBITZER) does not even know on 
which side of Davis Strait it les’. It is an open question. At the Mus- 
eum itself they do not know where the Dutch captain (Nic. Tunes) 
did land. 
р. 390—392. — We have here a typical example of Hr. Тном- 
SEN’s somewhat pedantic method of criticism, to wit an eager scraping 
together of some inessential details, a few accidental inaccuracies, in- 
cluding a printer’s error, from my mention of ScHAcHT. Possibly I may 
have done the old compiler too great honour in according him 20 lines 
of small type; my critic, however, vouchsafes him twice the number. 
Hr. THoMmSEN’s observations serve for the most part but to obscure 
what I had particularly wished to call attention to in this old MS; they 
suffice, however, to lend him some show of learning for himself. As 
to the date at which the work was composed, I was, as it happens, not 
misinformed, as will be seen from the fact that I have correctly stated 
in the text p. 683, that the writer in question was born in 1660 
and died at Kerteminde (Carteminde) in Funen, in 1700, and that my men- 
tion of him оп the same page commences with the proper date of the MS. 1? 
Hr. THOMSEN’s reference to the “List of writers” found in Scuacur is 
as valueless as Schacht’s list itself. Altogether misleading is my critic’s 
note p. 391 (no. 1), for LAURIDSEN mentions, in his Greenland Biblio- 
graphy, not one, but four MSS under the name of ScHACHT, naturally 
the same which I have noted.? 
1 My work (1914) р. 683: “In Scuacut’s Manuscript from the end of the 
17th century, the illustrations of which are in part identical with those of 
DE Poıncy etc.” — The last interesting piece of information anent the 
illustrations is not denied by my critic. 
2 In P. Lauripsen’s Bibliographia Groenlandica (Medd. om Grønland vol. 
13) we find quoted under Schacht’s name four MSS altogether, namely, 
in Section VIII D р. 156 (1) М. Ка. S. Fol. по. 1290, р. 157 (2) N. Kgl. В. 
4° no. 1965 and p. 158 (3) A.M. 4° no. 775; in Section II (p. 49), the MS 
(4) A. M. no. 364 Fol. These references are in agreement with the Cata- 
logue of the Old-Icelandic MSS, edited by Kommissionen for det Arna- 
magneanske Legat (1909). We have thus a complete original manuscript 
(from 1689) and three more or less defective copies. It is correct, that 
