THE population of the East coast of Greenland consisted in the 

 autumn of 1884 of 548 souls. Of these 413 lived in the Angmag- 

 salik district, and 135 on the more southerly stretch of coast. 



Graah states that the population in 1829 was about 600 souls, 

 but in 1832 only about 480^). These persons all lived on the more 

 southerlj^ stretch of coast. It can hardly be supposed that there 

 were many who went up from the South to the Angmagsalik district 

 since Graah's time, as the trend of the people is round towards the 

 West coast, to which they are attracted by the prospect of procuring 

 European wares. In the church register in Frederiksdal on the 

 West coast we find that since 1832 there have been entered as 

 having come from the East coast and been baptized: 274 persons^); 

 so that if Graah's statement was correct, the population, even if we 

 deduct the emigrants, must have diminished considerably. 



Of the people of Angmagsalik 6 to 8 were between the ages of 

 60 and 70. Several of them were able to remember that a man 

 from Sermilik who had seen Graah, came up to them and related 

 of him that he had intended to visit them in the same year. 



In the course of the 10 months we were at Angmagsalik there 

 were 10 births and 13 deaths^). 



It is possible, however, that the number of births was larger. 

 On the southern part of the coast there were 6 births and no deaths. 

 Out of the 13 deaths, 3 persons perished in kaiaks (viz. nos. 61, 92 

 and 280), one (no. 25) was thrown into the sea on account of 

 disease, and one (no. 79) threw himself at the instigation of others 

 into the sea on account of age and weakness. 



M Graah; Undersøgelses-Rejse til 0stk3'sten af Grønland (1832), page 118. 

 -') According to information obligingly furnished Ьл^ the missionaries at Frederiks- 

 dal (Table Ij. 

 '■'') The dead are designated in the list Ъу a f. 



