The Angmagsalik Eskimo. 389 



of models and toy weapons among real implements intended for use, 

 without any statement as to this being the case, and erroneous statements 

 as to the material of which the objects were made. To avoid wearying 

 the reader with unnecessary quotations, we may here once and for all 

 refer to the list given in the following (p. 426 ff.) of such mistakes as 

 have been discovered. Only such errors as demand more detailed treat- 

 ment will be specially dealt with here. 



TREATMENT OF THE AUTHORITIES QUOTED. 



If the extent to which the Author has had recourse to the Museum 

 is but slight, it must be admitted that the number of previously published 

 works called into requisition for the compilation of the volume in question 

 is by no means inconsiderable. The Author even devotes a separate 

 chapter to consideration of the older literature concerning the Eskimo 

 of Davis Straits 1 . This is perhaps somewhat of a digression from the 

 actual object of the work, but will doubtless be welcomed by foreign 

 readers, to whom the unpublished part at least of such documents would 

 hardly be known. And for this very reason it is extremely likely that 

 the chapter in question will be frequently quoted. It may therefore 

 not be out of place to offer some remarks as to the four least known 

 works there referred to. 



With regard to Olearius, Mr. Thalbitzer states 2 that "the three 

 Greenlanders brought to Copenhagen . . were sent to the king .... at 

 Gottorp". In Note 2 on the same page, we read that "a contemporary 

 painting of the four Greenlanders going from Greenland via Thrond- 

 hjem, where the picture was painted, to Copenhagen, is found in the 

 National Museum of Copenhagen". 



This discrepancy in the figures, at which the reader naturally won- 

 ders, is due to the fact that one of the Greenlanders in question, the 

 only male of the party, died on the way from Norway, and thus never 

 reached Copenhagen at all. With regard to this note, it only remains 

 to add that the king was not at Gottorp, but at Flensborg, whence 

 he gave orders for the three Greenlanders to be sent to the Duke of 

 Gottorp, "weil selbige auch sonderlich belieben tragen zu sehen, was 

 Gott und die Natur an so fern abgelegenen Orten gibt und zeuget". 

 The party had, moreover, travelled, not by way of Throndhjem, but 

 via Bergen, where the picture was painted — which fact, by the way, 

 the Author has himself referred to in an earlier part of the work 3 . 



The next work quoted is De Poincy's report of Nicolas Tunes' 



1 Thalb. II, p. 682—85. 



2 1. с. p. 682. 



3 1. с. p. 436. 



