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EDITORS PREFACE. 



In this volume of "Meddelelser om Grönland" are combined the 

 ethnographic results of three Danish expeditions to East Greenland, 

 namely: (1) The expedition of Captain Gustav Holm, the discoverer 

 of Ammassalik, carried out in 1883 — 85, (2) Captain G. Amdrup's ex- 

 pedition, entitled The Carlsberg Fund Expedition to East Greenland, 

 carried out in 1898 — 1900, and (3) W. Thalbitzer's voyage and win- 

 tering at Ammassalik in 1905 — 06, carried out in accordance with 

 the instructions of the Commission for the Direction of the Geological 

 and Geographical Investigations in Greenland, the expenses being 

 defrayed by the Carlsberg Fund. 



The bulk of the volume consists of a new edition, translated 

 into English, of the ethnographic portion of G. Holm's Den Östgrön- 

 landske Expedition (The East Greenland Expedition), which appeared 

 in Danish in "Meddelelser om Grönland", vols. IX and X, Copenhagen 

 1888 — 89. The issue of this English edition, containing new illustra- 

 tions and fresh information, was primarily occasioned by the publica- 

 tion of the ethnographic results of the Carlsberg Fund Expedition. 

 The circumstances which led to this were as follows. 



After my return from Ammassalik in 1906, the task was allotted 

 to me of describing Amdrup's ethnographic collection. The first part 

 of this description, comprising Amdrup's archæological finds from the 

 parts of East Greenland north of the Ammassalik district, was 

 published in "Meddelelser om Grönland" vol. XXVIII, 1909, among the 

 other published matter relating to the same expedition. It then 

 remained to describe and illustrate the rest of the same collection, 

 especially the objects from the extinct or "dead house" at Nûalik, 

 in the Ammassalik district. This collection forms a rather extensive 

 supplement to G. Holm's former collection from Ammassalik, which 

 is in the National Museum at Copenhagen. Desirous of procuring 

 as full and exhaustive an account of the ethnography of this district 

 as possible, I laid before the Commission for the scientific investiga- 

 tions in Greenland a plan of wider scope, in accordance with which the 



