496 W. THALBITZER. 
SUPPLEMENT 
FOLKLORE FROM WEST GREENLAND 
(Nos. 238—291 with introductory remarks.) 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
During the summer of 1914 I made a collection of folklore from 
the southernmost point of Greenland where I travelled among the 
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“last remnants of the east coast population then to be found on the _ 
southernmost stretches of West Greenland. These people had immi- 
grated to the west coast at the beginning of this century and settled 
there amidst the former native population in the Cape Farewell 
district. Their reason for coming presumably lay in the fact that the 
hunting game along their coasts had become more scarce, and be- 
cause they were tempted by the well stocked European trading posts 
to be found on the west coast. On settling over there they were 
baptised and assumed Christian names. After this the eastern coast 
south of Ammassalik was completely deserted. ' 
My material from this “mixed” district of the pagan East Green- 
landers and the christianized West Greenlanders is gathered mainly 
from the following places to which I arrived in the skin-boats of 
the natives, and where I pitched my tent and lived several weeks 
at a time: South Sermilik, a deep narrow fjord (about 60° 26’ lat. 
on the west coast) where I camped near a little hamlet about 25 
miles from the sea-coast; Nanortalik 20 miles further south, a small 
trading post on the sea under the management of a Danish official; 
still further south some small hamlets called Jlhlokasik, Pamidlhluk 
(also called Пиа) and Sammisog, the two latter trading posts with a 
tiny store under the management of a native merchant and both 
of them situated immediately north of Cape Farewell. — The 
expeditions for the east coast formerly passed by these stations 
through the narrow sounds north of the Cape Farewell islands 
(Egger’s ©). These sounds belong to the most secluded parts of 
inhabited Greenland owing to the eastern ice-current. 
1 First Part р. 343; cf. also here р. 181. 
