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had wintered at Ammassalik in 1884—85 as interpreter to Holm and 
Garde’s expedition to the east coast. No European knew more of this 
dialect than he, and his contributions to the translation of my texts 
are characterized by real insight and much self-criticism. Nevertheless 
I was uneasy at 
the thought that I 
had not got down 
deep enough under 
the surface; a great 
many questions 
were still unsolved 
when, in 1914, I 
made the voyage 
to the Cape Fare- 
well region, Green- 
land’s south corn- 
er there to get into 
contact with the 
last remnants of 
the expiring pagan- 
ism, of the subsid- 
ing Eskimo world. 
At the settlement 
Sammisoq in the 
most southerly 
sound connecting 
the east and west 
coast, filled with 
ice among desolate 
mountains, I met 
Kuannia, East- Fig. 25. Old Kuannia from Ittoluartiwin. 1 
Greenland’s last (Phot. August 1914 by W.T.) 
patriarch. Born 
at the settlement “The large, strange huts” (Ittoluartiwin) he had spent 
part of his early youth with his relations near Ammassalik; he rememb- 
ered their old-fashioned idiom and customs, and recognized in my texts 
his own impressions from the childhood days. The same applied to 
several of the old emigrants from the east coast still living here and from 
whom I supplemented my material from Ammassalik. The outbreak 
of the big war reached us at Sammissog on August 28th and compelled 
ТА portrait of the same as a young man is found in First Part, fig. 56. (Phot. 
by Knutsen.) 
