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them entirely unaltered, even in the spelling of the names; but some 

 few additions and amendments have been made by the authors who 

 are still living. — I have been fortunate enough to induce Captain 

 Holm to add an account of his journey, as an introduction to the 

 present translation of his Ethnological Sketch of the Angmagsalik 

 Eskimo. Moreover, he has enlarged the chapters on the ethnography,^ 

 by embodying in the text most of the notes which in the original 

 edition were given in connection with the plates. Furthermore,, 

 several extracts have been added from a part of the Danish edition 

 mainly concerned with the physical conditions of the country, which 

 it was not thought necessary to have translated as a whole; I par- 

 ticularly refer to some few remarks bearing on ethnological questions 

 contained in the general report of the expedition in "Meddelelser om 

 Grönland" vol. IX. A climatological survej'^ also has been added in 

 the chapter on the physical geography of the Ammassalik region. 



Part VII of this volume forms a continuation of my previous 

 Description of the Amdrup Collection, from the regions north of the 

 Ammassalik district. In the course of the preparation of this work, 

 I have been in charge of Amdrup's ethnographical collection. This 

 scientific treasure at first was housed in a cellar of the building of 

 the Carlsberg Fund Institution; but, as towards the end of 1909 the 

 cellar was required for other purposes, I was forced to look out 

 for other premises. I had the good fortune to be offered accomoda- 

 tion for it in the Royal Library at Copenhagen, where the collection 

 remained from December 1909 to October 1913, when it was finally 

 transferred to the National Museum, its original destination. My 

 cordial thanks are due to Dr. H. O. Lange, head librarian of the Royal 

 Library, for this kindness. 



Further I desire to express my gratitude to Captain Holm for 

 his inestimable assistance in the revision and proof-reading of this 

 volume. I also wish to extend my sincere thanks to Mr. Johan 

 Petersen, colonial manager at Ammassalik, for much valuable in- 

 formation regarding the natives and their language. 



The English translation of Parts I to VI was made by Grenville 

 Grove, Formerly Scholar of Hertford College, Oxford, and of Part 

 VII by H. M. Kyle, D. Sc. 



København 1913. 



М\ Thalbitzer. 



