Ethnological Sketch of the Angmagsalik Eskimo. 7 



in contact with Europeans. It now devolved upon us to study this 

 population. 



Meeting with the natives of Angmagsalik. — Our first 

 meeting with the people of Angmagsalik was most curious. The 

 men who came running from the tents had no trousers on, but 

 merely wore the very small drawers {natit), so that our women 

 rowers were quite dumbfounded at the apparition ; but the sight of 

 us Kavdhinaks (Europeans) must certainly have made a still stranger 



Fig. 1. Ilinguaki (H. Knutsen phot. 1885). 



impression on the natives. They had imagined us as supernatural 

 beings like the "inland-dwellers" and the "dog-men" which are 

 pure products of imagination. They stood at some distance from us 

 gazing at us in amazement, clapped their hands in sheer astonish- 

 ment, and burst out into greetings of welcome, such as "It must 

 surely be a dream that I should see Kavdlunaks" . 



They were, however, not quite so amazed as might have been 

 expected, for their angakoks (necromancers) had so often told them 

 about all the marvels they had experienced during their ceremonies, 

 that they were not very astonished that a little now fell to their lot too. 

 In the last few years, moreover, many curious objects had been found 



