. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. g. Referring to the amusements of these native Greenlanders, I amled to speak of a great festival that occurs here on the Danishkings birthday, and is general, on the same day, throughout allthe settlements. His Danish majesty supplies the good cheer, andEuropeans as well as Esquimaux join in t]je festivity. It is amost enlivening scene, as the accompanying sketch will original of this picture, which I have in my possession, wasdrawn by a Greenlander, and Mrs. Kjer, who gave it to me, saidit was an admirable representation of the gre
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. g. Referring to the amusements of these native Greenlanders, I amled to speak of a great festival that occurs here on the Danishkings birthday, and is general, on the same day, throughout allthe settlements. His Danish majesty supplies the good cheer, andEuropeans as well as Esquimaux join in t]je festivity. It is amost enlivening scene, as the accompanying sketch will original of this picture, which I have in my possession, wasdrawn by a Greenlander, and Mrs. Kjer, who gave it to me, saidit was an admirable representation of the great festal day. On another occasion I visited the church one Sunday morning,when the school-teacher—a native Esquimaux—preached exceed-ingly well, and I must say that the general attention given woulddo credit to people any where. The j)reacher played an organ,and went through the whole services in a most praiseworthy man-ner. Indeed, I was much struck with the great advance made bythe native inhabitants of Holsteinborg in Christian and general. ADVANCED EDUCATION OF TIIE GREENLANDERS. 69 educational knowledge. Their school is well attended, and read-ing and writing are carried on admirably. Very few persons here at home have any true conception of thegreat advance made in education by these has often astonished me when listening to the apt and readyway in which even children would pronounce some of their ex-traordinarily long words, some of those words consisting of noless than fifty letters! The following is one of their long words, but not the longest: Piniagagssakardluarungnaerangat. In all the trials made on one occasion in the cabin, by bothmale and female—by old and young—by all, I found none butcould read, and read well. I was surprised to see the rapidity—the full, clear enunciationof every syllable, with which they read; and one little Esqui-maux boy seemed to exceed the rest, though all did well. Perhaps I can not give my readers a bet
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