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were most of them farther from the shore than the winter- 

 houses. The openings of the tents were not in any particular 

 direction, but so that the in-dwellers could in each single case 

 look out directly on the sea. The tents were placed on grassy 

 ground and not on a naked, rounded rock-surface, as we so 

 often find in the more southern parts of Greenland. The grass 

 is warmer and it is not filled with gnat-larvae, as may be the 

 case in the south. Outside the tents the dogs were leashed 

 4 — 5 together to one or other large stone boulder, whilst the 

 half-grown puppies were allowed to play about. 



Of these 29 Eskimos 6 were married men, 6 married 

 women, one widow, a half-grown girl and boy and the rest 

 children Ч The widow Krulé, an old, decrepit woman tottering 

 about with a stick made of two pieces of wood, did not live 

 in any of the 5 tents, though her married daughter occupied 

 one of them and could have housed her without difficulty. She 

 had no idea how old she was and the other Eskimos still less; 

 by their way of it, she had always existed so long as they 

 could remember. She herself answered the question as to 

 her age with such inconsequent remarks as, she was now no 

 longer of any use, or even, that she was so old that her lice 

 no longer had a good taste; she was probably about 60—65 

 years old. According to information from Knud Rasmussen 

 her tribesmen, who were tired of carrying such a useless ob- 

 ject about, had left her on one of the bird-grounds two years 

 previously, to look after herself or go under. Knud Rasmussen 

 happened by chance to pass that way and took her with him 

 on his sledge. Now she was eking out her existence here at 

 Umanark, going round about the tents and picking up odds 

 and ends of the food going. Her dwelling was made up of 

 some old skins laid over a couple of poles, in the form of a 



' During the stay of tlie "Godthaab" at North Star Bay, two other families 

 and one unmarried, young man — in ail 7 persons — were there; 

 they had been brought from Cape York and were taken back there again. 



