188 Johannes Hansen. 



In the "following list of names Johannes Hansen's mode of 

 spelling has been followed^). He has tried particularly to get at 

 the meaning of the names, and he has therefore spelt them accord- 

 ing to the dialect and mode of spelling of the West coast. Many 

 of the names are accordingly pronounced quite differently from 

 what one would suppose from this list. Whereas as regards Ang- 

 magsalik I have followed the principle of writing the names ac- 

 cording to the pronunciation (except where this would have hindered 

 the understanding of names the meaning of which was known from 

 the West coast), in this list I have not corrected the spelling of the 

 names, as there were many I had never heard pronounced. 



As regards the ages given in the list, it is obvious that in many 

 cases they are merely a rough estimate, and can make no pretence 

 to perfect accuracy. 



However, we had a few fixed points to start from; thus, in the 

 case of the older people, the year a man from Sermilik came across 

 Graah, viz. 1830^), and as regards the younger people, the year 

 where people saw the 'Star with the great shining tail', namely 

 DonatVs comet of 1858. 



'^) The following alterations have however been made; the guttural /f has been 



replaced Ъу an ordinary k, ss by a single s and the accent ~ by ". 

 -) Compare page 73 and Graah's Undersøgelses-Rejse (1832), p. 140. 



