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The Angmagssalik people inhabit a fjord area stretching a 

 long way inland between 65° 30' — 66°; they are separated from 

 the Greenlanders of the S. E. by a desolate coast extending over 

 more than l^/o degrees of latitude. 



The S. E.-Greenlanders chiefly dwell between 62°— 63° 30' 

 and are in their turn separated, on the S., from the Juliane- 

 haab Greenlanders, by a desolate and dangerous shore, on 

 which one may specially note the large and perilous Puisortoq 

 Glacier. It is of the language of this little group that the 

 following work will treat. 



According to Captain Holm's statement, the whole group 

 in 1884 amounted to some 135 souls, but this small number, 

 by reason of removals to Danish settlements in the neighbourhood 

 of Cape Farewell, has dwindled to about 10 persons who, their 

 countrymen now declare, intend to go N. to Angmagssalik. 



The last great emigration to the Julianehaab District took 

 place in 1900 and, being at that time a missionary at Juliane- 

 haab, I took advantage of the opportunity of studying the 

 language of the immigrants and making notes upon it, that this 

 link between the languages of Julianehaab and Angmagssalik 

 might not irrevocably disappear. 



The work is divided into three parts, the first is a list of 

 classified words, forming a supplement to Dr. Rink's work in 

 "Meddelelser om Grönland", vol. 11, part. 2, page 64 and after; 

 further, an attempt has been made to explain many of the 

 words occurring in the S. E.-Greenlandic language, which differ 

 from the W.-Greenlandic; finally, the third section consists of 

 a tale by a Greenlander from the S.E.- coast, taken down in 

 the dialect spoken by him, to which are appended translations 

 into W.-Greenlandic and English. 



The English translation is by iMiss Grace M. Fox-Davies. 



