THE GREENLANDERS' DREAM 49 



clusively of Greenlanders : if the quarrel is between 

 a Dane and a native both nationalities are repre- 

 sented, the Gre'enlanders having a majority of one. 

 The Inspector of the district is president of the 

 court. 



Whether one agrees or not with the method of 

 government, it is at least certain that under the 

 fatherly rule of Denmark the population is in- 

 creasing. A Report has recently been issued 

 by a Commission composed partly of Danes and 

 partly of Greenlanders, which was appointed to 

 consider the administration of the country, and it 

 is probable that this will result in certain modifica- 

 tions of the existing system. The continuance of 

 the present government monopoly does not com- 

 mend itself to all who have a first-hand knowledge 

 of Greenland, and some of the more enlightened 

 natives have ambitions, both natural and com- 

 mendable, which cannot be realised under the 

 existing regime. A native pastor whom we met, 

 occupying a position in the Church similar to that 

 of an English archdeacon, has given expression to 

 the aspirations of the natives in a novel entitled 

 The Greenlanders 1 Dream, in which the conditions 

 in an imaginary Greenland of the future are de- 

 scribed: this was published in Eskimo and trans- 

 lated into Danish. 



The Eskimoes, or Greenlanders as they prefer to 

 be called, with whom we came in contact were for 

 the most part good-tempered and cheerful and 

 often intelligent and quick. Among the groups of 

 natives seen at the different Settlements there were 



