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that the natives at Ammassalik obtain European wares by trading 

 with the inhabitants of Umivik and Umanak, their neighbours to 

 the south. He obtained already at this meeting a number of objects 

 from East Greenland, which were handed over to the Ethnographic 

 Museum in Copenhagen on his return home. "The heathens are 

 very unAvilling to part with their things, both clothes and weapons; 

 they gave as a rule the reason, that the angakok had said, that 

 they must not give up these things. This applied especially to the 

 head-bands bedecked with beads, which the men use to keep their 

 long, thick hair flat on the head; for the angakok had said, that 

 the man who parts with such, would die" ^). 



Holm gives from this journey, like Graah earlier^), a sketch of 

 the outer appearance of the southern East Greenlander, which would 

 indicate, that features not Eskimoese were mixed with the latter-^). 

 He sees in this a sign, that the southernmost Greenlanders of the 

 west coast, to whom the same applies, might have descended from 

 the eastlanders — a view which has again recently, though based 

 on other grounds, been put forward by Schultz-Lorentzen*). Holm 

 also put forward a supposition, that "the Eastlanders are a mixed 

 race of the old Icelanders and Eskimo". Even though this mixing 

 has taken place in the Østerbygd, which lay on the west coast in 

 the Julianehaab district, he was of the opinion that it was reason- 

 able to assume, that the mixed remainder of the Icelanders have 

 wandered over to the excellent hunting grounds on the east coast 

 or have been driven over there, and gradually adopted the Eskimo 

 mode of living. 



In 1883 G. Holm again came to south-west Greenland, to begin 

 his umiak expedition up along the east coast, and in the following 

 year he reached Ammassalik and passed the winter there''). On the 

 way he twice met with eastlanders, who in their umiaks and kaiaks 

 were on the voyage southwards to the west coast for trading pur- 

 poses and to pass the winter there '^). 



'j Holm I.e. pp. 156-157. 



'') Graah (1832) p. 119. 



=') Holm I.e. pp. 157—159. Cf. Meldorf (1902) p. .34. 



■*) Schultz-Lorentzen (1904) p. 319. 



") During a reconnoitring expedition along the coast of Greenland in 1883 A. E. 

 NoHDicNSKiÖLD happened to get through the ice-current off Ammassalik and 

 landed in the fjord Tasiusak, which he called "King Oscar's Harhour ". But 

 as lie only stayed there some few hours and met no natives, tliis visit was 

 quite without importance for the ethnology. 



'') Holm (1889) pp. 64 and 77. 



