The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-23
SUPPLIES FOR GREENLAND.
The Danes Have Reached Their New sta
tion Every Year Since They Founded II.

A while ago the Danish supply steamer
Godthaab returned TO Copenhagen from
her annual visit TO Angmagsalik on the
east coast of Greenland. This IL the only
station that Denmark has on the east coast
II was founded five OF six years ago for
the purpose Of trading with the natives
and carrying on missionary work among
them.
The east coast has always been regarded
as very difficult to approach on account
Of the masses of foe ice which press against
Il during the summer season. In every
year, however, since the station was started
II has been reprovisioned by a steamer
from Denmark.
Considerable trade n carried on with
the 500 natives who exchange the character
istic products OF Greenland for European
commodities they have learned to prize.
The missionaries are having a good in
fluence and no unfavorable report has
ever been heard with regard to Denmark's
latest colonial enterprise.
There are romantic reasons why the
world should he interested in the little
station of Angmagsalik and glad to hear
Of its prosperity. The Esquimaux living
there were never heard OF by the white
race until a comparatively short time ago.
Hemmed in by the glaciers which extend
into the sea north and south Of the little
stretch Of coast they occupy, these natives
had been completely cut of from the world
perhaps for centuries. Until Capt. Holm
discovered them along the coast bet ween
05 degrees and GO degrees north latitude.
in his remarkable journey Of 1885, these
people knew nothing q. the world olt-
side their little habitat.
They We're not known to their relatives
Of west Greenland. In fact they We're n
Lost part of the human race that had straycd
away from their fellows and been forgotten.
Holm spent ten months in Angmsgsalik.
and therefore had an excellent opportunity
to study the inhabitants. who differ in many
respects from all other I quiu au tribes.
They numbered, when Holm saw them,
54s people.
maux. while in west Greenland there is
scaTcelya pure Esquinhu. for all the natives
have a greater or less admiNture OF European
blood. They spoke sdialect cf the Esquimau
language and were understood with diff
Guilty by the west coast natives the explorer
had with him.
The sea was tho source of nearly NIL
Their riches. There they found their food.
and the ice brought to them trunks OF
trees, planks and n considerable amount
Of debris from shipwreCkod vessels. Thus.
though they knew nothing whatever of The
world outside their homes, they had Ion,
been able TO use some articles mad by civil.
lized men.
y Theirfhsrpoons wore tipped with iron
from the hoop iron washed on their shore.
aud relics Of many a slip that went down
probably hundreds Of miles from their coast
were found In their humble huts serying
some useful though unaocustomed pur.
pose.
Their lives have been greatly changed
since they calne TO the knowledge of their
fellow men. They trade not only with the
whites, but also with the natives ~ ,he
west coast. They have discovered that
the world is large and that Il Is rood Tor
them 20 know other people and TO aco,,ire
TO impart.