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is issued partly Ijv printing-houses in Copenliagen, Haderslev, 

 Stolpen, Bautzen etc., partly by the printing-house which was 

 established at Godthaab (Nook) in South Greenland in 1861 

 and which is managed by a Greenlander. The nature of this 

 literature testifies more to the perseverance of the Danish 

 missionaries in grafting European enlightenment and ways of 

 thinking on this primitive population than to any powers of 

 literary production among the poor seal-hunters and fishermen 

 themselves. Yet it is worth noticing that the Greenlanders 

 like to write letters to each other, and that the most intelligent 

 and enlightened of them often send articles to the Greenlandic 

 "Illustrated News". 



This publication bears the name Ätuagagdliutit "some- 

 thing that is prepared to be read" ; it is an illustrated monthly 

 magazine which was started in 1861 by the printing-house in 

 the colony of Godthaab ; it is edited by a Greenlander and 

 continues to appear every year. In it is to be found a good 

 deal of information about the ethnography and folklore of the 

 Greenlanders. 



A collection of Greenlandic tales in the original language, 

 with illustrations drawn by a Greenlander, has also been pub- 

 lished by the printing-house in Greenland under the title Kaladlit 

 OkaUuktualliait (Vol. 1—4, 1859—1863). 



The translations of the bible pubUshed under Danish 

 auspices are: 



P. Egede: Evangelium okausek tussarnersok (The four 

 gospels) 1744. 2"'' Ed. 1758. — lb. Testamente nutak (The 

 new testament) 1766. — 0. Fabricius (The new testament) 

 1799. — 0. Fabricius and N. G. Wolff (The new testament) 

 1827. — P. Kragh (Parts of the old testament) 1829. 1832. 

 1836. 



Samuel Kleinschmidt and II. F. Jörgensen: Tasta- 

 таиШа/с (The new testament) 1893. TustamantitoicaK (The old 

 testament) 1900. 



