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cattle but also to hunting and fishing in the fiords and the rivers. Espe- 
cially the little sort ol fish which the Greenlanders call Angmagssat 
appear here in numbers. The Angmagssats appear in dense shoals in 
the fiords inside Godthaab, during the spring in the spawning season, 
as the author was able to observe in 1903. 
“Near a point in Pisigsarfik they were for instance, in dense shoals, 
gamboling under perpetual movement. It sounded as if it were pouring 
with rain along the shore, as each time a light ripple washed the land, 
fish came with it, jumping and thwacking with their tales, as they rubbed 
their bodies against each other and against the rocks with the swift- 
ness of an arrow, causing the water to spurt. It often happened that 
they jumped too high up onto the shore, where they lay and gamboled 
until the next wave either took them back again, or they died of ex- 
haustion. We caught as many as we had need of in our hands. — Those 
who have never seen such a sight, cannot easily form a conception of 
the riches of the sea, which are forced upon one, who witnesses such a 
shoal of fish”. 
It is highly probable that the Norsemen, in their time, used like 
the Greenlanders do at present, the headland in Pisigsarfik and Ame- 
ralik as a place of resort during the Angmagssat fishing in the spring, 
as there are at several points reminiscences of their time. Long rows of 
stones are found in at least three places in Pisigsarfik, which, according 
to what the Greenlanders say do not originate from them, but which 
according to tradition, is ascribed to the Norsemen. They amused them- 
selves — it is said — by competing as to who could hop best on one leg 
from stone to stone all along the row. The Eskimoes say that their 
forefathers were taught this game by the Norsemen, which at an earlier 
period was played by them on the ancient Norsemen’s row of stones. 
Between the bead of Pisigsarfik and Itivdlex there is a tongue of land 
a mile broad, across which an “Umiak’ could be carried. 
At the head of Zlivdler lies a big bay with a narrow inlet. The place 
is called Æxalugialik. Here the ruins of a big Norse farm are seen, in 
which huge sheep or goat pens are found, which are now partly under 
the surface of the water, bearing witness of a sinking of the ground 
having probably taken place since the Norse age. 
At ebb the water runs out of the bay by a little water-fall into the 
ford, Near this fiord ruins of several Norse farms have been found on the 
west side, also ancient Eskimoe tent-places which formerly were taken 
for Norse ruins. Along the banks of the fiord the Eskimoes have good 
hunting grounds. — The east side of Ttivdlex is precipitous and unin- 
habitable, This fiord is a northerly arm of A meralikfiord, of which the eastern 
fiord arm is Ameragdla. In the latter lie several groups of ruins, although 
the mountains are steep along both banks. In the valleys and up in the 
highlands the conditions for the breeding of cattle are good. 
Near to Niarüssat, on the fiord’s north side, the Norse craniums 
