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we may conclude from the many winter-huts and graves vvhicli 

 have been found on Klein Pendulum Island and around the 

 inner end of Franz Josefs Fjord*). This coast deserves especial 

 attention on the part of the historian because it was here that 

 Clavering in 1823 fell in with a little Eskimo tribe consisting 

 of 12 individuals, a flock whose existence \\as no doubt just 

 as great a surprise for the Europeans as the existence of the 

 Europeans was for them, and which has probably since died 

 out. At all events, the next time this stretch of coast was 

 visited, namely by the German-Austrian expedition (1869 — 1870), 

 there were no longer any living beings to be found there. 



That part of the east coast which lies north of 77° N. lat. 

 has hitherto not been explored. Along all the southern part of 

 the east coast, which has been explored and charted by Danish 

 naval officers (Ryder, Amdrup, Holm, Garde), have been found 

 partly indications thai Eskimo have formerly lived there, partly 

 — from 66° — Eskimo still living. 



Angmagssalik is the northernmost and now the only 

 inhabited point on the east coast. The inhabitants of this place 

 were first discovered and examined in 1883—1885 by G. Holm, 

 who gave an excellent account of the social and ethnographical 

 conditions prevailing among these people**). Unfortunately there 

 is not much information to be had about their language. Ac- 

 cording to the anthropological investigations, the East Green- 

 landers may as a whole be said to be "a pure and unmixed 

 Eskimo tribe . . . , which physically surpasses most of the other 

 East Eskimo and especially the other Greenlandic tribes ). 



The inhabitants of Angmagssalik themselves have no tra- 

 dition about their origin, as to whether they have come from 

 the north or from the south. Among their many folk-tales, 



*) Die Zweite deutsche Nordpolaifart 1869—1870 (Leipzig 1873—74) Vol.1, 



pp. 33.5, 448, 387 ff. 

 **) G. Holm : Ethnologisk skizze af Angmagssaiikerne. Den østgrønlandske 



Expedition 1883 — 188.). Meddelelser om Grönl. Vol. 10) 1888). 

 ***) Sören Hansen: Bidrag til Østgronlændernes Anthropologi. Ibd. p. 41. 



