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Now in completing my work 1 cannot but feel that Ihis 

 strange language still invites to long continued investigation 

 and that I have far from sounded its lowest depths. Yet I hope 

 that the results which I publish here may be of some aid to one 

 or another student who needs information of this kind about 

 this very inaccessible language — until some time when there 

 shall be still fuller and more certain information to be had. 



Before concluding I should like to express my sincere grat- 

 itude to the Commission for the Direction of Geological and 

 Geographical Explorations in Greenland for the excellent assis- 

 tance which they have lent me in the accomplishment of my 

 task and for the confidence which they have shown me through- 

 out; likewise to the Carlsberg Fund, which has shown its 

 interest in my undertaking by enabling me after my return from 

 Greenland to devote all my time and energy to this work so as 

 to complete it as soon as possible. 



Furthermore it must be permitted me here to express my 

 heartfelt thanks to my former instructors at the University of 

 Copenhagen, Professor Vilhelm Thomsen Pli. D., Professor 

 Harald Höffding Ph. 1). and Professor Otto Jespersen 

 Ph. П., who by their recommendations and the interest they have 

 shown my [)lan have encouraged me to carry it through. 



Finally I should like to give my best thanks to those who because 

 of their special acquaintance with the language, history or conditions 

 of Greenland have been able to furnish rae with much useful informa- 

 tion, to Dr. K. J. V. Steeustrup and Commodore G. Holm; to Pro- 

 fessor Finnur Jonsson Ph. Ь. of tlie University of Copenhagen; 

 to the anthropologist, Police Surgeon in Copenhagen, So ren Hansen; 

 to the inspector of the Zoological Museum, H. Winge; to Mrs. Signe 

 Rink; to mag. scient. С. Kruuse; to Lieutenant in the Navy G. С 

 Amdrup and to Mr. E. Mi к к else n -Loth (to the latter e.specially 

 for many particulars for the map showing remains of earlier Eskimo 

 settlements) ; to Pastor Christian Rasmussen, the parish rector 

 in Lynge and lector in the Greonlandic language, formerly missionary 

 in North Greenland; to Pastor Schultz-Lo rent zen. Principal of 



