1. Preface and Introduction. 



The maxim, "'Where there's a will there's 

 a way", is quite true among the Eskimo. 

 O.T.Mason'). 



i he ethnographical collection which the Carlsberg Fund 

 Expedition to East Greenland which was made in the years 

 1898 — 1900 under the command of Lieutenant G. Amdrup^ 

 brought to Copenhagen, comprises a series of 'finds' of artefacts 

 from the coast between Ammassalik (on the map Angmagsalik^) 

 and Sabine Island, or between 65^2° and 74° 30' lat. N. on the 

 East coast of Greenland. 



On those parts of the coast which were visited for the 

 first time by a European expedition, were discovered the ruins 

 of several Eskimo settlements, the inhabitants of which had 

 deserted them long since, or else had died out. These places 

 were subjected to a thorough investigation for archaeological 

 purposes, in accordance with the plan of the Expedition. A 

 number of the settlements were discovered within the Ammas- 

 salik district, only some few to the north of it. I reckon the 

 Ammassalik district to extend as far to the north as the coast 

 is known by the sole surviving Eskimo of this coast, the in- 

 habitants of the neighbouring fjords, Ammassalik and Sermilik 

 lal about 65^/2° lat. N.) — namely to Kangerdlugsuak, 'the great 



') Mason ni. 242. 



*) The East Greenland form of this name is Ammattalinrj , but in the 

 West Greenland diabjct the name is pronounced thus: Ammassalik, in 

 the misleading renderinc of Kleinschniidfs orthography Angmagsalik. 



