Ethnographical collections from East Greenland. 



675 



Graah (1832) p. 118. 



Names of settlements Number of 



from south to north inhabitants 



Aluk and nearest district round it 50 



Narksak (Lindenows fjord) 20 



Ivimiut 12 



Taterat (Auarket fjord) 20 



Okkiorsorbik (Aneretok) 50 



Maneetsuk 8 



Kinarbik 14 



Griiïenfeldts 9 



Anarnitsok 20 



An island between Omenarsuk 



and Kopetelik 38 



Kikkertarsoak 75 



Kemisak 90 



Aluiki) 130 



Lund (1851). 



Names of settlements 

 from south to north 



Number of 

 inhabitants 



All told... 536 



Ranger dlugsuatsiak 8 



Anoritut 14 



Erkalungmiut 15 



Umanak 20 



Itivdlermiut 15 



Igdlorlit 14 



Akorninarmiut 30 



OrkordHt^) 8 



Igdluluarsuit 32 



Pikiulik 6 



Sermelik 30 



Angmagsalik 150 



Kilalualik 100 



All told. . . 442 



The Hst shows clearly that there was a much more numerous population 

 in the northern regions near Aluik (named Umivik on the present chart), Ang- 

 magsalik and Sermilik than further south on the coast where the inland as well 

 as the sea -ice is more dominating and where in the winter the ice-layer on the 

 fjords is not so constant and solid as further north. Further, it is seen how 

 greatly the population must have decreased since Graah's time; for though he 

 did not count the northernmost and best populated, but to him unknown settle- 

 ments his total sum amounts however to ca. 540, so that the population seems 

 to have decreased by one fifth during the time from 1830 to 1850 owing to emi- 

 gration from Kemisak and Kikkertarsoak (i. e. Igdloluarsuit) in the north and 

 from Narksak and Ivimiut in the south to the west coast'''). 



To p. 3U (cf. 323). 



Dead houses. — About the dead house near Qingaaq in the Ammassalik 

 Fjord the following story is told. Here lived during the winter 1892 — 93 Kun- 

 nitte and his family consisting of his wife, four children and his mother-in-law. 

 When in spring the Eskimo came to this isolated place to carry on ammassät- 

 fishery all the inhabitants were found dead. The dead body of Kunnitte lay 

 outside the house, the others on the platform. As there was plenty of ammas- 

 sät in the house they could not have died of starvation, but it was supposed 

 that they had been scared to death by the angry souls of some people who had 

 been eaten by Kunnitte and his mother-in-law during a famine ten years before. 

 "The souls had evidently made their appearance and frightened them to death 

 {tatamittigin)". 



1) Graah's Aluik corresponds with Umîvik of the modern chart. 

 ^) Lund's Orkordlit corresponds with Orkua of the modern chart. 

 3) Graah a832) p. 118. 



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