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the legs are not well formed in proportion to the rest of the 

 body. Notwithstanding this, they display really admirable strength 

 and endurance on long toilsome walks. 



The hands are small and chubby with white nails, which are 

 often kept very long. Some have long, narrow, bony fingers. The 

 feet are small and well-shaped, but often rather broad and flat and 

 with a low instep. The men's gait is elastic, light, and with 

 outwardly turned feet; their run, on the other hand, is heavy, 

 waddling, with stiff arms, crooked knees, and short, hasty steps. The 

 women's gait is heavy, waddling, wàth the body slightly inclined for- 

 w^ard. They are quite bandy-legged. The arms are held stiffly out 

 to the sides with elbows turned in. 



The colour of the skin on the uncovered parts of the body is 

 yellowish-brown. On the rest of the body the colour is lighter, with a 

 bluish tinge. The women are lighter than the men. The pigmented parts, 

 viz. the sexual organs and the nipples, have a dark blue-black tone. 

 New-born babes have a blue-black spot on the loins. This spot 

 gradually spreads, disappearing, however, w^hen they get older. The 

 skin is very soft and fine in the parts of the body which are 

 covered with clothes when they are out in the open air. 



Dr. Søren Hansen has worked up the anthropological measure- 

 ments made by the Expedition and the materials brought home in 

 "A contribution to the Anthropology of the East Greenlanders" 

 (part II). 



Language. — The language of the people of Angmagsalik is 

 much softer than that of the West Greenlanders. In speaking, 

 they often stress the final syllables of the words and pronounce 

 them W4th a higher pitch, and as, moreover, several vowel sounds 

 are different from those of the West Greenlanders, there is a con- 

 siderable difference in the sound of the two dialects. 



While studying the East Greenland dialect. Hanserak made in 

 a copy of Kleinschmidt's "Den grønlandske Ordbog" (Greenlandic 

 Dictionary) annotations in Greenlandic as to the words which are 

 different in the Angmagsalik dialect. Dr. Henry Rink, the well- 

 known authority on Eskimo life and language, has worked up this 

 material in "The East-Greenland Dialect" (part IV). 



Tattooing. — Nearly all the women are tattooed , having a 

 couple of short lines between the eye-brows and one just below 

 the root of the nose, and also a few short lines on the chin. The 

 arms and hands and, to some extent, the legs are more or less 

 tattooed with rectilinear figures and small strokes, which often cover 

 considerable areas. Some women are also tattooed on and between the 



