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not altogether groundless.” And Sir Charles 
Giesecke informs me, that the Esquimaux on 
the western side of Greenland retain, even at the 
present day, a great fear of the inhabitants of 
the eastern coast, whom they describe as barba¬ 
rians, and are apprehensive, lest, at any time, 
they should come over and kill them. With 
reference to the arrows said to be used by these 
people, it may also be mentioned, that a piece of 
an instrument, perhaps of this kind, formed of 
bone and iron, resembling the head of a small 
dart or arrow, was found by one of my sail¬ 
ors, on a part of the coast we visited, which in¬ 
strument, it appeared to me, was totally un¬ 
like those generally used by the native Esqui¬ 
maux. 
To these statements, intimating the present 
existence of the descendants of the ancient colo¬ 
nists, others of a less decisive kind, from Crantz, 
and some which resulted from my personal re¬ 
searches, might be added; but the former may 
be seen in the “ History of Greenland,” (vol. i. 
book iv. eh. i.) and the latter in the succeeding 
Journal. One fact, however, which has been 
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