326 



sufficient to decimate them severely or drive them away, as 

 has happened on the West coast. 



But whereas, according to what has been set forth above, 

 everything goes to prove a movement of the East coast Eskimo 

 from north to south, we are compelled to assume that the 

 immigration to the East coast of Greenland must have taken 

 place from the North, 



This view was originally tentatively put forth by Rink^), 

 but has afterwards been backed up with several weighty proofs 

 by G. Holm, С Ryder and W. Thalbitzer, all of whom, 

 as is known, have visited both the East coast and the West 

 coast. 



Thus Holm pointed out that the East Greenlanders 

 {the An g mag sali к tribe) in artistic skill approach much 

 more nearly to the West Eskimo than to the West 

 Greenlander^). 



Ryder comes to the conclusion from an examination of 

 the ethnographic objects discovered in 1891 — 92 that the 

 former inhabitants of Scoresby Sund must have most in 

 common with the north-west Eskimo tribes, the Eskimo of 

 Point Barrow^). 



Finally W. Thalbitzer has shown by his admirable 

 linguistic studies that the northernmost dialects on both sides of 

 Greenland resemble one another more than they resemble 

 the dialects on the West coast of Greenland between 71° 

 and 60° lat. (or 7Г— 64° lat.)*). 



Among the authors who support the theory that the 



^) H.Rink. Oni Grønlands Indland og Muligheden at berejse samme. P. I. — 

 do. Eskimoiske Eventyr og Sagn. P. 44. — do. Eskimoiske Eventyr 

 og Sagn med Supplement. P. 153. 



2) Meddelelser om Grønland. Vol. X. P. 153. 



") — — Vol. XVII. P. 343. 



*) — — Vol. XXXI. P. 40-43 and 186. — W. Thal- 



bitzer. Eskimo dialects and wanderings. P. 109— 10 in XIV. Internatio- 

 naler Amerikanisten-Kongres 1904. 



