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on board the old sliip of Mc Cliiitock, the "Fox", which is now 

 a coast steamer in GreenUmd. 



From April 1907 till the end of May 1908 Knud Rasmussen 

 was again witii Ihe Polar Eskimos, living "as Eskimo among 

 the Eskimos". In the summer of 1909 a Danish Missionary 

 Society commissioned Knud Rasmussen and H. Schouby to 

 found a permanent Mission Station at North Star Bay. The 

 expedition on board the S/S "Godthaab" also called in at Cape 

 York, both on its outward journey in July and on its return 

 in August. 



Some scientists who were sojourning in West Greenland 

 at that time, namely, Chr. Refsaas , ethnologist in music, 

 Th. Thomsen, Eskimo archæologist, and the author, also ac- 

 companied the Expedition on the "Godthaab"". The main ob- 

 ject of the flrsl-named was to make a collection of the primitive 

 melodies of the Eskimos, which might serve as a valuable 

 supplement to the collections of folk-lore and ethnological 

 materials, made by Knud Rasmussen among the Polar Eskimos. 

 For the Danish National Museum , Th. Thomsen bought up a 

 collection of clothing and implements, an account of which 

 will probably be published by him. My own studies were 

 directed more to the manners and customs of the Polar Eski- 

 mos, and the results of my observations are discussed in the 

 following pages. 



To supplement my own observations and for the purpose 

 especially of giving a more complete picture of the life of the 

 Polar Eskimos throughout the year, 1 have made use of the 

 literature available , among which may be specially mentioned 

 the works of R. Peary, L. Mylius Erichsen and Knud Rasmussen. 

 From the last I have also received various items of information 

 by word of mouth. 



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