The Colony of Angmagsalik. 
perusal of the reports of the exploration of the East Coast of Green- 
. land from the time of Зсовезву to the present day is like the 
gradual unfolding of a series of fairy-tales, and no one with a little 
geographical taste will have cause to repent having become acquainted 
with what has been accomplished, what has been suffered, and what 
has been discovered on these journeys. The whole of the coast has now 
been travelled, the last, most northern stretch by the Denmark Ex- 
pedition, the last piece but one by Amprup’s bold journey. The ex- 
peditions have returned home, and at home the results have been recorded 
in quiet and comfort. Upon the bleak east coast has remained the Danish 
colony Angmagsalik, founded by the Government of Denmark and for 
a number of years after its foundation ruled by the colony superintendant 
JOHAN PETERSEN. 
Merely one aspect of Johan Petersen’s activities will be referred 
to here: his work in the service of ornithology. It is true that the birds 
form only a small part of nature as a whole, and on all East Greenland 
expeditions birds have been collected and observed. But hardly of 
any spot in the whole of the inhabited world can it be said as of this, 
that one man for so many years has lived in the only populated place 
on a coast several hundred miles! long and made his notes on the bird- 
1 Here as elsewhere in this paper geographical miles are meant. 
