THE GREENLANDERS’ DREAM 49 
clusively of Greenlanders: if the quarrel is between 
a Dane and a native both nationalities are repre- 
sented, the Greenlanders having a majority of one. 
The Inspector of the district is president of the 
court. 
Whether one agrees or not with the method of 
government, it is at least certain that under the 
fatherly rule of Denmark the population is in- 
creasing. A Report has recently been issued 
by a Commission composed partly of Danes and 
partly of Greenlanders, which was appointed to 
consider the administration of the country, and it 
is probable that this will result in certain modifica- 
tions of the existing system. The continuance of 
the present government monopoly does not com- 
mend itself to all who have a first-hand knowledge 
of Greenland, and some of the more enlightened 
natives have ambitions, both natural and com- 
mendable, which cannot be realised under the 
existing régime. A native pastor whom we met, 
occupying a position in the Church similar to that 
of an English archdeacon, has given expression to 
the aspirations of the natives in a novel entitled 
The Greenlanders Dream, in which the conditions 
in an imaginary Greenland of the future are de- 
scribed: this was published in Eskimo and trans- 
lated into Danish. 
The Eskimoes, or Greenlanders as they prefer to 
be called, with whom we came in contact were for 
the most part good-tempered and cheerful and 
often intelligent and quick. Among the groups of 
natives seen at the different Settlements there were 
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