In terms of latitude, my travels in Greenland extended from 

 68" 13' to 72''47'Л". lat. Between January 15 and AJarcli IT, I tra- 

 veled 920 miles by sledge, accompanied by various native guides. 



A survey of the chief points on my journey tlirough >'orth 

 Greenland is given on p. 6. 



2. 3Iy Method of Investigation. The phonetical lists men- 

 tioned above, which 1 had \vith me on my travels, and on which 

 I noted down the results of my direct investigations, deserve 

 closer attention, since they have been of the greatest importance 

 to me in the determination and classification of the phonetical 

 elements of the spoken language. They are so arranged that 

 for each of the sound-elements in the language, there is a 

 special list headed with the symbol of the sound under con- 

 sideration. Each list consists of a series of such words of the 

 language as I anticipated would be useful for the observation of 

 that particular sound. This is the way in which I used them. 

 In every place where I came for the purpose of closer investi- 

 gation of the language spoken there, I hired a Greenlander to 

 pronounce and repeat again and again for me those words of 

 the lists which I asked him to say. I thus got an opportunity 

 of observing the parts of his mouth while he pronounced the 

 various sounds of which the word was composed. If the snund 

 which I especially desired to investigate happened to be pro- 

 duced by means of a position of the organs of the moutli which 

 could not be directly observed when it was naturally taken. 1 

 had to let him Indd liis mouth wide enough upen for tlie 

 light to penetrate into it and the movement of the tongue to 

 be visible. In order not {o change the nature of the scjund by 

 a too forced position of the jaws I tried f(» make my observa- 

 tions with the least possible opening of the mouth. Only in 

 some few cases, for instance in the articulation of y. it seemed 

 to make no difference whether the angle of the jaws was big 

 or little. In such cases, in order to illustrate for the Green- 



