82 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
being tied behind the back, and each competitor 
carried a seal on his shoulders. In an article on 
the Eskimo Stone Rows (Nangissats in the Eskimo 
language) contributed by Mr Porsild to the 
Geographical Review (vol. x, November, 1920) it 
is stated that they appear to be confined to 
localities between lat. 67° N. and lat. 72° N. and 
are unknown outside Greenland. 
Walking alone on the shore one morning, far 
from any habitation, I saw with surprise, and with 
a suddenness that was startling, the figure of a dog 
silhouetted in the distance against the sky on the 
top of a large boulder. In the summer the dogs 
are usually left to themselves and it is not uncom- 
mon to meet them or to see their footprints on the 
sand far from a Settlement. To the Eskimo dog 
the contrast between winter and summer must be 
a very real one; in the winter the dogs are regularly 
fed and kept in good condition for the invaluable 
services they perform, but in the summer they 
become scavengers and vagabonds or are kept 
within a wired enclosure. They are only partially 
domesticated and are almost as much wolf as dog. 
Though generally not unfriendly, or at least in- 
different, to human beings, they sometimes make 
furious attacks upon children or even adults. 
Hunger and wildness cause them to dominate the 
situation in the Settlements of North Greenland, 
where sledges are the only means of transport and 
travel in the winter; sledges and kayaks are kept 
on special stands raised several feetabove theground 
or on roofs of houses out of their reach. 
