46 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 



the winter months also acts as schoolmaster. The 

 children do not attend school in the summer. In 

 the Church a Greenlander may rise to the highest 

 position under the bishop in Copenhagen, whose 

 diocese includes Greenland. At Godthaab (lat. 64 

 N.) there is a seminary (Fig. i) where the more 

 promising Greenlanders receive further education 

 under the Danish Principal, and those who wish 

 to be ordained spend two years in Copenhagen. 

 Under present conditions natives cannot become 

 Factors or Inspectors, but as members of county 

 and parish councils, which include no Danes, they 

 play an important part in local government. 



Two monthly newspapers in the Eskimo lan- 

 guage are printed and edited by Greenlanders, one 

 at Godthaab and the other at Godhavn; they con- 

 tain articles of general interest with some illustra- 

 tions, together with local information. The editor 

 of the Godhavn newspaper, Avangnamioq^ the 

 Northlander, is also a capable barber. Both papers 

 are circulated without charge among the people. 

 There is also published from time to time an 

 official report, in Eskimo, of the number of differ- 

 ent animals killed by hunters at the various Settle- 

 ments. There is undoubtedly a good deal of latent 

 artistic talent among the natives. Mr Porsild 

 showed me a large collection of folk-tales collected 

 on Disko Island and at his suggestion illustrated 

 in colour by the Greenlander by whom the tales 

 were narrated. The same artist, also at Mr Porsild's 

 request, had drawn excellent and very accurate 

 landscapes of portions of the coast of Disko Fjord 



