[Guadeloupe, Saint Vincent, 'Cluett' Voyage] 1915-1916
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"Danish Greenland education is [55] now slowly extending into Northwest Greenland through women who have recently married into the Smith Sound Eskimo tribe and through the es- tablishment of missionary stations at Cape York and on Inglefield Gulf. At Godhavn I had looked at only the exterior of the Eskimo houses, but at Upernivik I got glimpses of the interior as well. The house of the church organist is quite pre- tentious, as befits his high station in the community, but he and his wife both have white blood in their veins and their abode shows the influence of Danish ideas. The building is a wooden box about twelve feet square and eight feet