46 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
the winter months also acts as schoolmaster. The 
children do not attend school in the summer. In 
the Church a Greenlander may rise to the highest 
position under the bishop in Copenhagen, whose 
diocese includes Greenland. At Godthaab (lat. 64° 
N.) there is a seminary (Fig. 1) where the more 
promising Greenlanders receive further education 
under the Danish Principal, and those who wish 
to be ordained spend two years in Copenhagen. 
Under present conditions natives cannot become 
Factors or Inspectors, but as members of county 
and parish councils, which include no Danes, they 
play an important part in local government. 
Two monthly newspapers in the Eskimo lan- 
guage are printed and edited by Greenlanders, one 
at Godthaab and the other at Godhavn; they con- 
tain articles of general interest with some illustra- 
tions, together with local information. The editor 
of the Godhavn newspaper, Avangndmiog, the 
Northlander, is also a capable barber. Both papers 
are circulated without charge among the people. 
There is also published from time to time an 
official report, in Eskimo, of the number of differ- 
ent animals killed by hunters at the various Settle- 
ments. There is undoubtedly a good deal of latent 
artistic talent among the natives. Mr Porsild 
showed mea large collection of folk-tales collected 
on Disko Island and at his suggestion illustrated 
in colour by the Greenlander by whom the tales 
were narrated. The same artist, also at Mr Porsild’s 
request, had drawn excellent and very accurate 
landscapes of portions of the coast of Disko Fjord 
