the coasts, 1 left Jakobsliavn to begin a sledge-journey to 

 difTerent parts of inhabited North Greenland. My (ibject on 

 this journey was to gather new impressions of the language 

 and folkbire of the people and abundant material for a study 

 of both. I lirst traveled along the coast of Disko Bay to Egedes- 

 minde, and from there 6(S miles farther south to the Eskimo 

 settlements around the Aiiläfsiirik- Fjord, where the Greenlanders 

 are supposed to have been very little influenced by civilization. 

 Here they still use gut for their window-panes (not glass), and 

 drift timber for the beams and wood-work of their houses; they 

 have no wooden flooring, the earth remaining bare, and all 

 cooking, heating and lighting is accomplished by means of their 

 potstone lamps. After a few weeks" stay with these primitive 

 but friendly people. I continued my journey toward the north 

 and returned to Jakobshavn in the end of February. 



It was not long before I again departed from here and 

 traveled farther north on my sledge across the Niigsuak 

 Peninsula to the colony of Lmanak [Oommatutaq]^ which lies 

 on a little island in the middle of a big Ijord. Witli this as my 

 starting-point I traveled over the wliole district in the course 

 of the spring, being able to traverse the fjord-ice on my sledge, 

 and thus get around to all the Eskimo settlements about the coasts 

 of tiie tjord. 



When the ice broke up in the montli of June 1901, and 

 the ships from Denmark arrived. I traveled north on board the 

 bark Thorvaldsen as far as the trading-place Proven, and 

 thence by long-boat to the northernmost Danish colony L'per- 

 uivik \i'pernaicik\. On the way Ixmie, we touched at God- 

 havn. After an eight weeks' stormy voyage, I arrived in Copen- 

 hagen October 7, 1901. 



Of the 400 days vviiich 1 spent in Greenland, ! lived for 

 142 days with natives in the Eskimo settlements, and the rest 

 of the time in the Danish (-(»lonies. But 1 allowed no day to 

 pass without being in company with natives several hours. 



