108 G. Holm. 



In their descriptions of districts they have visited, they are able 

 to point out exactly the good things which specially belong to 

 each separate place; thus in one place there are many narwhals, 

 in another many bears, harbour seals, gulls or even sea-weed. 

 Similarly, they are able to indicate the exact position of the sun at 

 certain times of the day and seasons of the year, and to calculate 

 how long it will take to go from one place to another, if they meet 

 no obstacles on the way. The different statements of distances both 

 northwards towards Kialinek and southwards towards Umiuik har- 

 monise completely. All the statements we have been in a position 

 to control were absolutely accurate. 



As regards their maps I need only mention that many of the 

 natives are inclined to magnify the scale according as they approach 

 the places they know best, which is indeed only natural, as other- 

 wise they would not have room for all the details. The drawing 

 of sketch-maps was, of course, a пол^еКу to them. 



"Greenland is an island", the Angmagsaliks say. A man from 

 Angmagsalik, by name Ujartek (circumnavigator of the land), tra- 

 velled in old days round the whole land in an umiak (see tale 

 no. 5). In the stoi}^ of his travels mention is made of a point 

 called ^'Nuna isua" i. e. the extreme point of the land. This is the 

 boundary of the land which is known from Angmagsalik, and, ac- 

 cording to the description must be situated about 68^3° latitude N. 



The accounts of the Angmagsaliks of the country up to that 

 point and their drawings, from which I have sketched and de- 

 scribed this unknown stretch of coast (between 66 and 68^з° 

 latitude N.) are spoken of in the geographical description of the 

 country^), so that a brief account is all that will be neces- 

 sary here. 



I shall first give an instance showing what accurate accounts I 

 have received from the Angmagsaliks, how I have been able to 

 determine the position of the different places from these accounts, 

 and how far I have been able to control them. 



') From the Angmagsaliks' descriptions and drawings of this unknown stretch of 

 coast (see "Meddelelser om Grönland" IX, page 217 and Plate XV), which I 

 had personall}" never explored, I drcAA- a sketch-map, which is reproduced in 

 Plate XVII in '-Meddelelser om Grønland" IX. 



Captain Amdrup afterwards (1899-1900) reached this coast, and his 

 л\'огк furnishes и valuable confirmation of the Eskimos highh' developed 

 geographical sense. He states in "Medd. om Grønl.' XXVII p. 264, that it is 

 amazing to see in how many points the sketch-map in question corresponds 

 Avith the reality, and he points out that the position of several places and islands 

 is given so exactly, that they lie either at the latitude given in the sketch- 

 map or ver}' close to it. 



