[28] Holm, Meddelelser om Grönland, pt. 10, p. 96.
[29] Holm, Meddelelser om Grönland, pt. 10, p. 103.
[30] Dalager states that, in his time, on the west coast, ’scarcely one in twenty of the Greenlanders had two wives, very few three, and still fewer four; I have, however, known a man who had eleven.’—Grönlandske Relationer, p. 9.
[31] Angekok==medicine-man, or priest.
[32] Dalager: Grönlandske Relationer, p. 9.
[33] Holm: Meddelelser om Grönland, pt. 10, p. 96.
[34] Holm: Meddelelser om Grönland, pt. 10, p. 102.
[35] W. A. Graah, Narrative of an Expedition to the East Coast of Greenland, London, 1837, p. 135.
[36] Compare P. Egede, Efterretninger om Grönland, p. 107; and Holm, Meddelelser om Grönland, pt. 10, p. 91.
[37] Although, as we have seen, the Eskimos are not greatly delighted at the birth of daughters, they do not, like so many other primitive people, make a habit of killing female children.