The Innuit 215 



The chief duty of Angakoks, or Shamans, is to find 

 out who has infringed the tabus and thus brought 

 down the wrath of the supernatural beings, and 

 to compel the offender to make atonement by 

 public confession, or confession to the Angakok. 

 The Central Eskimo suppose two spirits to reside 

 in a man s body, one of which stays with it when 

 it dies and may temporarily enter the body of 

 some child, who is then named after the departed, 

 while the other goes to one of several lands of 

 the souls. Some of the lands of the souls lie 

 above the earth s surface, some beneath, and the 

 latter are generally more desirable.&quot; 



The coasts of Greenland were occupied by the TheNore- 

 Norsemen, during the tenth and eleventh cen- r 

 turies; and the Eskimo were in, consequence, the 

 first aborigines of the Western Continent to come 

 into contact with the white race. 



The history of Missions in connection with them 

 begins with the third expedition of Sir Martin 

 Frobisher. On more than one occasion landing 

 parties ascended the highest hill in the neighbour 

 hood &quot;where they also made many crosses of 

 stone in token that Christians had been there.&quot; 

 Again, when two sections of the expedition, which 

 had given each other up for lost, were reunited, 

 we are told : 



&quot;Here every man greatly rejoiced of their 

 happy meeting, and welcomed one another after 

 the sea manner with their Great Ordinance, and 

 when each party had ripped up their sundry 

 fortunes and perils past, they highly praised 



