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proachable and for the Eskimos most difficult to pass along 

 the whole coast of Greenland. Nevertheless, there is no doubt 

 that there has been some communication along this stretch of 

 coast and certainly in both directions. The old Scoresby Sound 

 Eskimos seem, according to Ryder ^, to have been distinctly 

 reindeer hunters, which points to a southern origin. On the 

 other hand, the smallness of the houses, their square-shaped 

 form and various other features point northward to EUesmere 

 Land^. The rectangular ground-plan however is only a result 

 of using wood or whale-bones for the roof. It is only the 

 places, seemingly, where the roof is also built of stone, that 

 the ground-plan becomes rounded; this holds good, for example, 

 not only for the Polar Eskimos but also at Lake Hazen^. 



The fact pointed out by Holm, that the natives of Angmag- 

 salik knew about the musk-ox, suggests that they have been in 

 connection with the north. Among the West Greenlanders there 

 are only uncertain traditions regarding this animal , perhaps 

 indeed it has been completely forgotten. On the other hand, 

 there is no reason to go so far as Schultz Lorentzen^, who 

 maintains that not only the Angmagsaliker but also the southern 

 West Greenlanders have migrated north and east round Green- 

 land. I am in agreement with 0. Solberg"' in his criticism of 

 this hypothesis. From the cultural standpoint the Angmagsaliker 

 are decidedly related to the West Greenland population, but we 

 are obliged to take up the view that they have been mixed with 

 immigrants from the north. 



In this way we perhaps obtain an explanation of the con- 



Om den tidligere eskimoiske Bebyggelse af Scoresby Sund. Meddelelser 



om Grönland 1895. 



Simmons, I. с, pp. 190—91. 



Greely, 1. е., Vol. 1, pp. 379-82. 



Eskimoernes Indvandring i Grönland. Medd. om Grönland 1904. — 



cf. H. P. Steensby, Die Einwanderung der Eskimos nach Grönland. 



Petermann's MiUeilungen 1905. 



Beiträge zur Vorgeschichte der Osteskimo. Christiania 1907. p. 57 et seq. 



