FOREWORD 
TO THE SECOND РАВЛ 
spent the year of 1905—1906 near Ammassalik, the only Danish 
] colony on the east coast of Greenland. Т now have the pleasure 
of presenting the main portion of my results from my sojourn 
among the natives. This collection of Eskimo texts and melodies 
is a sincere and vigorous manifestation of the nationality of the 
Greenland Inuit as it has been passed down from generation to 
generation through time immemorial in this remote spot. 
The present publication is an independent continuation of the 
“First Part”, or volume which appeared in 1913 and which, in its 
first division comprised an English translation of Gustav Holm’s 
“Ethnological Sketch” of the same Eskimo tribe describing it as 
it was and acted at the moment of its discovery. This “Second 
Part’, in its first division, contains two articles by Hjalmar Thuren 
and myself which were published five years after my return from 
Ammassalik, and which are filled with samples of the music and 
melodies of the people. The second division which is issued here 
is more comprehensive and contains my contributions to language 
and folk-lore. 
I spent a year among these people in accordance with the 
instructions of the Commission on Geological and Geographical 
Investigations of Greenland. My main object was to observe the 
spiritual culture of the tribe, and I was formally requested to 
refrain from making any collection of ethnographical articles lest 
the tribe thereby be deprived of something useful or vital to its 
welfare. 
