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Next in order comes the well-known English whaler- 

 captain W i lliam Score sby-j un. ^). 



Almost everywhere where S с ore shy landed in 1822 on 

 the stretch between Scoresby Sund (circa 70^/4°) and Кар 

 Parry he came across indications that the coast either was, 

 or had formerly been, inhabited by Eskimo. However, he did 

 not come across any living Eskimo. 



But when the Enghshman Clavering^) in 1823 came 

 across Eskimo in Clavering Ö (circa 74^4°), it was but a 

 step to the assumption that the whole coast between Scoresby 

 Sund and Clavering Ö, and probably also the parts to the 

 north, must be inhabited by Eskimo. 



The second German North pole expedition ^) in 1869—70, 

 one of whose vessels, the Germania, overwintered in 

 Germania Hafen (74°30') in Sabine Ö did not meet any 

 living Eskimo on the stretch between Kaiser Franz Joseph 

 Fjord (73°10') and Кар Bismarck (77°00'). 



Thus when the Danish naval officer С Ryder in 1891^) 

 set out to explore Scoresby Sund the chances were not 

 much in favour of his meeting living Eskimo; and as a matter 

 of fact he met none. But on the other hand in all parts of 

 the vast nexus of fjords he came across numerous indications 

 that these regions had once a fairly large Eskimo population. I 



And the same holds good of the large nexus of fjords 

 around the Kaiser Franz Joseph Fjord which was care- 

 fully explored in 1899 by the Swede Prof. A. G. Nathorst-^). 



As has already been mentioned, the second German North 



^) Journal of a voyage to the Northern-Whale-Fishery; including researches 

 and discoveries on the Eastern coast of West-Greenland, made in the 

 summer of 1822 in the ship "Baffin" of Liverpool, by William 

 Scoresby-junior. 



-) Petermanns Mittheilungen. Vol. XVI. 1S70. P. ;)20. 



^) Die zweite Deutsche Nordpolari'ahrt. 



■•) Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol. XVJI. 



'') A. G. Nathorst. TvA Sonirar i Norra Ishafvet. Senare Delen. 



