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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