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To Mr. Adlerger O. Brestaa and manage to un-
derstand each other a little. He asks us to his
home which is practically a large innuit house. The
inside room is furnished in the european style but
rather poorly. The library of probably 100 to 200 books
is the most conspicuous object in the room. This gentleman
is of jewish origin and came to Greenland as a boy.
Most of his time has been spent in south Westermarck
I think, with and a number of other north Greenland
places. He will return to Danmark next year. His
wife is an innuit with long skirts a rather comical-
lons costume for her but evidently it is done to
distinguish her from other innuits.
Mr. Bresta shows hospitality at once by furnish-
ing us some, two glasses, and his wife some after bring a
coffee. He collects various natural history articles such
as fossil plants, mammals and foetal specimens of seal
and walrus. He next shows us skins of Greenland
deer, fox, dog and arctic hare. I purchase of him
a dog skin sleeping bag for 12 kr., then deer skins for
9 kr., then fox skins for 6 kr., 1 pair of Sunday Kamikks
for 2 kr., 1 paper pound for 6 kr. and the foetal seal
and etc for 8 kr. Mr. Rite also found one a lot
and we pay 3 crowns and 8 Reemes. Mr. Bresta