iso Sir C. Glesecke on the Residences of the Greenlanders. 
VI. Holsteinsburg District, is the last in South Greenland. 
SI. The district of Holst einshurg begins at 66° 16' and 
ends with 67° 45'. The natives being employed in the whale- 
fishery, ha'« e all their winter-houses round the colony. The 
number of the inhabitants of this district is 196, viz. 87 males 
and 109 females. Thus the whole population of South Green- 
land, the limits of which are fixed to the Strom Frith in 68% 
comprehends a number of S58S souls. 
North Greenland commences in latitude 67° 4S', and compre- 
hends the following districts : 
1. Egedes-mindes district, extending from 67° 43' to 68° 
2. Christianshaab district, ...68° 68° 10^ 
3. Jacobshavn district, 68° 69° 40' 
4. Rittenbenks district, 69° 40' 71° 
5. Omenaks district, 71° 7S° 8' 
6. Upernaviks district,. 72° 8' 76° 30' 
The population of North Greenland is not entirely ascertain- 
ed, but it does not exceed the number of 3000 souls. The coun- 
try from 67° to 69° is uninhabited. The first district of North 
Greenland is that of the colony Egedes-minde. The natives be- 
longing to this and the othfer districts situated round Disko- 
Bay, or Fish-Bay, have their houses at the colonies, for the sake 
of the whale-fishery. 
The Greenlanders of Omenak district are tlie only natives of 
the whole coast who hve during winter in the interior of that ex- 
tensive firtii, having their supply in catching the seals, by means 
of nets which are set under the ice. 
The most northern district is that of Upernavik ; it begins at 
7£°5 and reaches to the remotest north ; but it is only inhabited 
to the 73°. Southwards from Uppernavik is situated 
Ranger soietsiaky an island inhabited by natives. 
At Upernaviky four or five Greenland families have their 
abode. 
At Tessiursaky an island in 74° 15', eighty miles north- 
•ward from Upernavik, one family terminates the population of 
this forlorn coimtrv. 
