[48] Danish, tusinde.
[49] The most important contribution to our knowledge of Eskimo art in its primitive condition is to be found in Captain Holm’s instructive account of the Eskimos at Angmagsalik, Meddelelser om Grönland, pt. 10, p. 148, &c., with illustrations.
[50] Near Cape Farewell.
[51] The ipak is an extension of the sleeping-bench (generally square) on which they place the lamp with its wooden stand.
[52] Cheap Nuremberg or Swiss clocks are among the articles of luxury which commerce has introduced into Greenland; they are to be found in the remotest corners of the country.
[53] Which is very low in the genuine Eskimo huts.
[54] As to the constitution of the soul see also Paul Egede, Efterretninger om Grönland, p. 149, and Cranz, Historie von Grönland, p. 258.
[55] Paul Egede says expressly (Efterretninger om Grönland, p. 126) that the natives make no distinction between tarrak and tarnek (tarnik), and he himself uses the two words indifferently. See also the same work, p. 92.
[56] Historie von Grönland, p. 257.
[57] See Holm, Meddelelser om Grönland, pt. 10, p. 112.