The Ammassalik Eskimo. 455 
With regard to the Dutchman, PALUDANUS, mentioned in my quo- 
tation from OLEARIUS, my critic has found, in a Dutch book, some very 
interesting information, and I can only advise him to pursue his studies 
further”, He refers, in a footnote, to OLEArRius’ Gottorfische Kunst- 
kammer, without adding that this work was printed in Schleswig 1666. 
The “Kunstkammer” (private museum) in question was later trans- 
ferred to Copenhagen, and had I been more cautious, I should not have 
stated of the remarkable idol from the 17th century, that it was brought 
to Copenhagen, but only that it came to Denmark (scil. Gottorp). Hr. 
THOMSEN adds “not from Western Greenland”, but OLEARIUS mentions 
this ido. in connection with “der Grünländer Religion” and it would 
thus be natural to connect the finding of it with DANELL’s expeditions, 
which had then recently brought Denmark into contact with West 
Greenland (1652—-54). — OLEARIUS” well-known “Muskowitische und 
Persianische Reise”, in which the idol is described for the first time 
(cf. my work p. 683 note 3) was published in 1656, but the illustra- 
tions of the idol did not appear until some years later, and not first 
in SCHACHTS MS (p. 167), where I noticed it, but — and this I had over- 
looked — in OLEARIUS’ second work from 1666, to which Hr. THOMSEN 
refers me. On comparing these two illustrations I find, that the one 
in Scuacut’s MS is somewhat larger than that in Olearius, and that 
it exhibits some slight alterations in the dress (the hair of the furs, the 
shading, etc.) whence it is evident that Schacht had not cut his figure 
out of a book. It is drawn with writing ink or indian ink on a slip of 
paper pasted into the MS, as are the remainder of his illustrations. — 
I have in my book, likewise on p. 683, note 3, given the text accom- 
panying the figure from Schacht’s MS, in his Latin translation, which 
now, however, turns out to be a quotation translated from OLEARIUS 
(1666). Hr. THOMSEN gives the German text, from this book, which 
answers to the Latin. Naturally, it makes but little difference which 
we use; SCHACHT's Latin is good enough, and tells us the same as OLEA- 
RIUS’ German. 
p. 393. I am well aware that the list of earlier writers might be 
added to, and I have never doubted that a considerable amount of fur- 
ther detail might be drawn from other works than those which happened 
to be available for my purpose (only, of course, excluding such as repose 
A M. 364 is the principal MS, and thatit contains less than 200 pp. (there 
are in all 178, not 192 as Hr. Tuomsen states). The page numbers beyond 
100 are, however, all written with an initial figure formed almost like the 
figure 2, which might easily be misread. 
In the footnotes to these pages Hr. Toomsen exhibits a dainty specimen 
of his erudition. He appears, by the way, to have overlooked the Danish 
Historian Г. Bop£, who, in his recently published paper “Christian Lunds 
Relation om Danells tre rejser til Grønland” (Danske Magazin 6. R. 11, 
1915, p. 232 note 2) gives this and other information regarding BERNHARD 
PALUDAN (VAN DEN Broeck), a physician of Enckhuyzen. 
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