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Journey. Method of Investigation. Method of spelling. 



1. 3Iy journey. I sailed from Copenhagen May 20, 1900 

 on the brig Tjalfe belonging to the Royal Greenland Trading 

 Department, and arrived, after a six weeks' voyage, at the colony 

 of Jakobshavn in North Greenland (Disko Bay). 



During my daily intercourse with the Greenlanders in this 

 colony, I began to learn to speak Greenlandic, thus supplemen- 

 ting by the study of the living language that insight into it 

 which I had hitherto only been able to get through books*). I 

 frequently moved out to the Greenlanders to the north and to 

 the south, and lived with them a few weeks at the time. At 

 about Christmas time, while staying in the house of the colonial 

 manager, Poul Müller**), I prepared the lists, on the basis 

 of which I later collected specimens of the phonetical elements 

 of the language in those parts of Greenland which I visited. 



About the middle of January 1901, as soon as the darkest 

 period of the long winter-night was past, and the ice lay along 



*) Yet I had already several times had the opportunity of hearing Green- 

 landic before my departure from Copenhagen , having here met the 

 South Greenlander Henrik Lund, who was on his way, via Copen- 

 hagen, to the east coast, where he was to take up his work as "kateket". 

 *') Among my various hosts in Greenland, 1 feel especiall> graleful toward 

 this Færoic man, who received me with the greatest hospitality on my 

 arrival in the land and whose guest I was for about half a >ear. The year 

 after my return from Greenland I received the sad news of his death. 



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