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bird that had quite small wings with short feathers, and that it 

 could keep as long under water as a Greenland seal. 



As to fish, the following deserve to be particularly mentioned : 

 angmagsat (capelans), sharks, salmon, sea-scorpions, wolf-fishes, 

 sea-perch, cod and halibut. 



The natives obtain the three last-mentioned fishes only when 

 the crested seal brings them up to the surface. 



Other edible sea-animals worth mentioning are: mussles, sand- 

 gapers, sea-urchins, sea-snails and shrimps. 



III. 



NAME — DISTRIBUTION — PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS 

 CLOTHING — DWELLINGS — IMPLEMENTS - HUNTING. 



Name of the tribe. — That group of the Eskimo which the 

 East Greenlanders who live further south call Angmagsalingmiut, 

 from the most populous region on the Angmagsalik fjord, travels 

 over the coast between the 65*^ and 68*^^ degree of latitude on the 

 East coast of Greenland. 



By Angmagsalik is understood, strictly speaking only the place 

 where angmagsat (plural of angmagsak) are caught, namely the 

 region about Kingak in the interior of the Angmagsalik fjord, where 

 there are no permanent dwelling places ; though at the season of 

 the year when angmagsat are caught, people gather here from the 

 whole surrounding district. The name, however, is used by other 

 East Greenlanders to denote the whole district from which people 

 go to hunt angmagsat. 



The name Angmagsalik is no longer used by the inhabitants 

 themselves, as, a man of the name of Angmagsak having died, and 

 the natives not daring to pronounce the name of a dead person, the 

 fjord was renamed Kulusuk from the inhabited region on the large 

 island at the mouth of the fjord, where the greater part of the in- 

 habitants live. As, however, the district is known along the East 

 coast and the most southerly part of the West coast under the name 

 of Angmagsalik, and as this name, of course, is quite familiar to 

 the inhabitants themselves, we thought ourselves justified in retain- 

 ing it. 



The inhabitants call themselves Inik or Так "man". They do 

 not know the word Kalalek, which is the name given to them- 



