Ethnological Sketch of the Angmagsalik Eskimo. 109 



From one of the winter places, called Itlvsalik, it is told that the 

 sun is seen on the shortest day just above the horizon, whereas for 

 some time — at least five days — in summer, it is seen constantly 

 in the sky. As refraction raises the sun at the horizon a whole dia- 

 meter, the centre of the sun accordingly lies half a diameter below 

 the horizon, and thus the latitude of the place must be 66'48', or 

 possibly a little less, as the sun is perhaps just a trifle above the 

 horizon. 



A day's journey north of this spot, they say, there lies an ice- 

 covered island, called Aputitek. From Angmagsalik to Aputitek is just 

 as far as from Angmagsalik to Umivik in a southerly direction, or 

 according to other versions, to a spot lying midway between Umivik 

 and Igdloluarsuk. If we take the mean between these two state- 

 ments and lay out this distance on the map to the north, Aputitek 

 will be found to be situated about latitude 67^15'. From Sermili- 

 gak to Aputitek is, according to the accounts of one traveller, four 

 long day's journeys, — longer than the day's journey from Ang- 

 magsalik to Sermiligak — according to other accounts й\е day's 

 journeys. 



If we measure on the map the distance between Sermiligak 

 and the point which we reached by laying out the above stated 

 distance from Angmagsalik to the North, we see that with five 

 day's journeys a single day"s journey will be 22 miles, while 

 with four dav's iournevs it will be 27 miles, thus of the same length 

 as the day's journey between Angmagsalik and Sermiligak. and 

 about the length of good day's journeys we have actually made 

 along the coast together with the natiл'es, and which, by talking to 

 them about the distances on the known part of the coast, we found 

 to answer to their own notion of good day's journeys. 



By measuring the distance between the two fixed points, viz. 

 from xlputitek (determined by distance and controlled by day's 

 journeys) to Itivsalik (determined by the sun) we see that 

 the distance is 28 miles, or in other words a good day's journey, 

 which is the distance which, as we have already seen, was to be 

 found between the two places according to the accounts of the 

 natives. 



The far north. — The district between Aputitek and Itivsalik 

 is generally comprised under the designation of "Kialinek". It is 

 this district which the Angmagsaliks have most frequently visited 

 and overwintered in. 



Three day's journeys north from Aputitek we come to an 

 island which likewise bears the name of Aputitek, situated at about 



