216 DANIEL BRUUN. 
Between Eystribygd and Vestribygd. 
Tigssaluk was, as we have hinted, the eastern settlement’s northern 
boundary. There are 144—160 miles between this place and the outlet 
of Ameralikfiord, which is south of the colony Godthaab, in as much 
as one reckons the more direct way across the bays and the fiord out- 
lets, or one follows the coast line. This tract, as it were, has always been 
uninbabited in the Norse age, as only insignificant ruins in Biörne- 
sund (Agdlomersat) lying south of Fiskeness, and in Fiskefiord or Fiske- 
nessfiord (on 63° п. lat.) in Buxefiord (south of Ameragdla), lying within 
the territory mentioned, and must be assumed to have stood outside 
the real settlements. We must, for the present, therefore, limit the 
southern boundary of the western settlement with Ameralikfiord (a good 
64° n.lat.). According to the ancient descriptions, mentioned above, 
there were “six days rowing in a six-oared boat” between the eastern 
and western settlements, which excellently suits the distance between 
Tigssaluk and Ameralikfiord, when one reckons 24 to 24%, miles as a 
days rowing, which is the same as Captain GRAAH, states — and also 
that which the Eskimoes of our days, on an average, calculate a long 
journey. People passed along this coast every summer, where Frederics- 
haab’s glacier juts out into the sea, when they went to and from the 
northern capturing grounds. 
The western settlement. 
The region in which the western settlement’s chief section lay, 
is the complex of fiords within Godthaab’s colony, on about 64° n. lat. 
The country here consists of deep fiords, up to a length of 100 miles, 
they intersect, for the greater part, right up to the inland-ice between 
high mountains. Most of the Norse ruins are united here to the interior of 
the fiords, whilst the Greenlander’s (Eskimoes) habitations chiefly he, 
and lay, in the outer parts and in the skerries, but there are terri- 
tories where evidently Norsemen and Eskimoes have had joint trading 
grounds; this is chiefly applicable to the Eskimoes’ summer tent 
grounds, within the fiords, where their trading took place, in the vicinity 
of the Norsemen’s farms which perhaps was the cause of the conflict 
that ended so fatally for the latter. 
The investigation of the ruins in the western settlement in 1903, 
proved that a greater number of farms were to be found, than one had 
known of before, chiefly in and around Ameragdla, and that the terri- 
tories at the head of the Вот were of the best in Greenland, which is 
sufficiently evident through the luxuriant vegetation which is still to 
be found on several of the homefields. It is the fertility of this 
soil which has been the main cause of the house sites being over- 
grown so that in places they can hardly be seen. Another reason, as to 
why only a few farms in the western settlement, could show well pre- 
