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INTRODUCTION. 
One of tlie party, of the name of Kojake, who 
lived sixty leagues up the east side of the coun¬ 
try, informed the missionaries, that, in the pre¬ 
ceding winter, he had lodged two men, who said 
they had made a three years excursion along the 
eastern coast in a women’s-boat. They passed the 
first winter by the way,—in the second year they 
proceeded to the northward as far as the ice would 
permit,—and in the third they returned home. 
They proceeded to so high a latitude, that the 
sun, at mid-night, illuminated the tops of the 
mountains with its rays. In some places the ice 
was close in-shore, so that they had to place their 
tent and boat upon a sledge, and draw it across 
the ice by dogs. They described the people on 
the east side as taller than those on the west, and 
that they had black hair and large beards. The 
inhabitants were numerous, and the animals, on 
which they subsisted, plentiful. They saw- a fine 
inlet, but did not enter it, for fear of the canni¬ 
bals, which are said to live in that place, and of 
which all Greenlanders have a dread from former 
times. In the opinion of Kojake they became 
cannibals at first out of necessity, because once, 
in a great famine in winter, they had nothing 
