186 G. Holm and Johannes Hansen. 



It will be seen from Table II, that the proportion between men 

 and women at Angmagsalik is as on the West coast, viz., 114 wo- 

 men to 100 men. It is certainly only a coincidence that at present 

 there are such a large number of women on the southern pari of 

 the East coast, viz., 160 women to 100 men; for among the people 

 who emigrated from there to the West coast, the proportion is 110 

 women to 100 men, which is very favourable (Table I). 



It is an advantage for the Eskimo to be gathered together in a 

 large company in one house. The people are thus not so liable to 

 fall into poverty through mere chance circumstances, as e. g. 

 when the man who supports the family is unable to go out hunt- 

 ing owing to illness or accident. Whereas at Angmagsalik, there 

 is only one house in each settlement, which is inhabited on an 

 average by 32 persons, the southern Easterners have often two houses 

 in the same settlement, with an average of 19 inhabitants. At all 

 trading-places on the West coast, each family generally lives in a 

 house to themselves; the reason is no doubt, that they do not want 

 to share the European provisions with the housemates, while they 

 do not mind sharing their hunting spoils with them. In the Juliane- 

 haab and Frederikshaab districts there are only 7 persons on an 

 average per house, whereas further north on the West coast there 

 are 10. 



As regards tents information is lacking about the West coast. 

 On the East coast there are 9 tents per 100 persons. 



The umiaks of the southern Easterners are in general larger than 

 those of the Angmagsaliks; hence it is nothing remarkable that on 

 the southern East coast there are 19 persons per umiak, while at 

 Angmagsalik there are only 15 (Table II). Notwithstanding the far 

 greater proportion of women among the southern Easterners, they 

 have comparatively more umiaks than the southernmost Westerners 

 — where there are 27 persons per boat — , and that though the 

 Easterners also have sledges. In the rest of the southern district on 

 the West coast (north of Frederikshaab), where there are very few 

 umiaks, there are also Danish boats. 



In the colonies round Disko Bay, with which the Easterners 

 may be compared as regards hunting conditions, the number of 

 umiaks is greater than in the central districts, viz., 32 persons 

 pei- boat, and they also have dog-sledges. I have no reliable 

 information as to the number of the dog-sledges on the East coast, 

 but I can say for certain that the Easterners have at least as many 

 dog-sledges as umiaks, but hardly as many as tents. That is to say 

 that as regards the number of sledges the Angmagsaliks are just as 

 well-off as the colonies round Disko Bay, while with regard to the 



