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rotten meat. In addition to the large house of more recent date 

 there were several old ruins of houses of smaller size on this island. 



Nordre Aputiteq (at 67°48' N. lat., 32°06'W. long.) is the northern- 

 most place which has been visited by any of the natives still living 

 (in 1906) at Ammassalik, namely the old /и//шА" and his companions '). 

 Amdrup found Kunak's house in at the south point of the island, 

 built on a site where two other houses had stood previously. The 

 island (like many other places) has thus been inhabited on several 

 different occasions, through many generations. The many bones 

 round about, of bear, seal and narwhal, showed, that the hunting 

 here had been excellent. 



The northernmost Eskimo place name the Ammassalikers w^ere 

 able to note on the chart is that named by Holm Kernerarsuit or 

 nana isua '"'land's end"^) on the east side of the large fjord Kang- 

 erdlugsuak (68° 5' N. lat., 32° 40' W. long.), which was closely surveyed 

 by Amdrup in 1900. Here Amdrup found the interesting ruins on 

 Skærgaards Peninsula, a 400 feet high headland, under which lay 8 

 house ruins, 6 tent-rings, a bear trap, 11 fox traps and numerous 

 graves^). This headland and surrounding hills seem to answer best 

 to Holm's Kernerarsuit. In agreement with the pronunciation of the 

 Ammassalikers I would write this name Qerneraartiwin; it means 

 "the large black ripples on the water, which are raised by strong 

 gusts of wind". The name may include a reference to the steep 

 mountains behind the headland which cause the whirlwinds. Ac- 

 cording to the tradition of the Ammassalikers, their forefathers did 

 not stop their journeys at this point. Holm learned in 1885, that 

 "the descendants of the people which had moved to Kialinek, had 

 crossed over the mighty icefjord Kangerdlugsuak and had settled 

 farther north where they possibly still live." On a short sledging 

 visit to this fjord from Nordre Aputitek, Kunak had come across 

 sledge tracks of unknown people apparently living farther to the 

 north ^). 



A second place mentioned in the Uiarteq story is said to lie 

 even further to the north. This is Kigdlivigsivit (see p. 304) pro- 

 nounced Kittiwissiwin or Kittiwäitiwin at Ammassalik, "the large 

 umiak "horns" or. cleft stems of an umiak", probably referring to one 

 or more hills with pointed, double summits, which have the shape 

 of the forked stem of the umiak. Perhaps in reality it is a very 



1) Holm (1889) pp. 222 and 225. Amdrup (1902) pp. 246—249 and (1909) p. 311. 



2) Holm in this volume p. Ill and (1889) PI. XV. 



s) Amdrup (1902) pp. 237-243 and (1909) pp. 312-313. Thalbitzer (1909) pp.386 



—388. 

 *) Holm (1889) p. 222, In this volume p. 110. 



