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small houses of the Sc о re shy Sund pattern right out at 

 Angmagsalik. The occurrence of these houses seems to 

 me, tlierefore, to furnish a proof, however slender, of the 

 Scoresby Sund Eskimo having migrated south. Furthor 

 we find an isolated indication that this movement went on 

 little by little, in the fact that in the settlement on the NW 

 side of Storö we find two of the small houses built within 

 the sites of the larger houses. 



As to the motives for this movement, Ryder writes: "In 

 spite of the fact that Scoresby Sund, and to some 

 extent, its interior ramifications, during a great part of the year 

 afford the Eskimo good opportunities of acquiring the means 

 of subsistence, there will nevertheless be a long period, viz. 

 from the time the ice gets thick and is covered up with snow 

 till the seals begin to appear upon the ice, that is from De- 

 cember to May, during which it will certainly be difficult for 

 an Eskimo to procure the game necessary for the support of 

 his family; and this circumstance, taken in conjunction with 

 the Eskimo's innate love of travelling, may account for the fact 

 of their having once more moved out to the outer coast and 

 thence further south". 



If we add to this that the Angmagsalik District is 

 unquestionably the best district for seal-hunting on the whole 

 East coast, as the hunting can go on there practically the 

 whole year round, and that the drift-timber which is of such 

 vital importance to an Eskimo, is found here in far larger 

 quantities than further north, and further that the climate is 

 far milder here than in the stretch from Scoresby Sund 

 (0 the north, it seems to me that it is almost a matter of 

 course that a movement of the Eskimo from the north to the 

 south must take place in the course of time, whereas a move- 

 ment in the opposite direction would be far less conceivable. 



It might be added in further proof that the accounts 

 which G. Holm received from the inhabitants of Angmag- 



