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This is a new translation of the best history which we have of Greenland; and infinitely superior to that of 1767. Judicious curtailments have abridged the prolixity of the German; almost equally judicious additions have brought down his information to our era; and the original text is rendered with spirit, instead of the literal style of the former publication. The subject has, however, occupied so many of our pages within the last two years, and Crantz's facts are so generally known, that we shall abstain from any thing like an analysis, and merely produce two or three extracts, to exemplify the manner in which the work has been performed. The first relates to the ancient supersti

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breathe upon them: but of this personage chantment being dissolved, the captive creathey can give no farther account. tures directly ascend to the surface of the Besides the soul of man, the Greenlanders sea, and the successful champion has no difThe History of Greenlami; including an speak of other greater and lesser spirits, ficulties whatever on his journey back. They Account of the Mission carried on by which bear some affinity to the gods and do not however think, that she is so malicithe United Brethren in that Country. demi-gods of the ancients. Two are pre-ous as to aim at making mankind eternally From the German of David Crantz. eminent, a good and a bad divinity. The miserable, and therefore do not describe her With a Continuation to the present good is called Torngarsuk. He is the ora- dwelling as a hell, but a place abounding in Time; illustrative Notes, &c. Lon-cle of the Angekoks, on whose account they the necessaries of life; yet no one desires to undertake so many journeys to his happy be near her. On the contrary, they greatly don, 1820. 8vo. 2 vols. subterranean regions, in order to confer with venerate Torngarsuk; and though they do not him about diseases, and their cure, fishing, hold him to be the Author of the Universe, and the changes of the weather. Their ac- they wish after death to go to him and share counts of his person differ very much. Ac-in his affluence. cording to some he is of small stature. A Greenlander, previous to assuming the Some affirm that he resembles an immense office of Angekok, or diviner, must procure white bear; others a giant with one arm; one of the spirits of the elements for his while others again contend that he is no big-Torngah or familiar. Marvellous tales, ger than a man's finger. He is, however, framed to support the belief of a real interallowed by all to be immortal. course with spirits, are related of the manThe other great but mischievous spirit, is ner in which this illapse takes place. The a female without a name. Whether she is aspirant must retire for a time into a desert, Torngarsuk's wife or his mother, it is not cut off from the society of every human beagreed. The natives of the north believe, ing, and spend his solitude in profound medithat she is the daughter of the migh- tation, or in invoking Torngarsuk to send ty Angekok, who tore Disko island from him a Torngak. This separation from manthe continent near Baal's River, and tow-kind, his fasting and emaciation of body, ed it an hundred miles farther north. This together with the severe exercises of his northern Proserpine lives under the ocean, mind, throw the imaginative faculty into all the sea monsters by the efficacy of her and monsters, swim before his disturbed in a large house, in which she enthrals disorder; and various figures of men, beasts, spells. Sea fowls swim about in the tub brain. He readily supposes these to he real of train oil under her lamp. The portals of spiritual existences, since he thinks of Of the end of the world, and the resurrec- her palace are guarded by rampant seals, nothing else, and this throws his body into tion of the dead, they have scarcely any idea. which are exceedingly vicious. Yet their violent convulsions, which he labours to Some of them, however, affirm that souls place is often supplied by a large dog, which cherish and augment. Sone who are desloiter near the graves of the bodies which never sleeps longer than a second at a tined to the art from infancy, are distinguished they animated, for five days. The latter then time, and can consequently rarely be sur- by a particular 'dress, and instructed by cerise again, and pursue the same course of prized. When there is a scarcity of seals lebrated masters, find little difficulty in the life in another world, which they were ac- and fishes, an Angekok must undertake a initiation. Several however give out that customed to in this. They therefore always journey to her abode for a handsome reward. they sit down on a large stone, invoke Tornlay the hunting implements of a deceased His Torngak, or familiar spirit, who has pre-garsuk, and tell him their desire. On his person near his grave. This childish opin-viously given him all proper instructions, pearance the aspirant shrieks out and dies, ion is, however, ridiculed by more observ-conducts him in the first place under the and lies dead for three whole days, at the ant Greenlanders, who perceive that the earth or sea. He then passes through the end of which time he comes to life, and redeceased and his weapons remain unmoved, kindom of souls, who spend a life of jollity ceives a Torngak, who, on his desire, instils and go into corruption together. The fol- and ease. Their progress is soon after inter-into him all power and knowledge, and conlowing idea seems to bear more evident cepted by a frightful vacuity, over which a ducts him on his journey to heaven and hell. marks of a tradition relative to the resurrec- narrow wheel is suspended, and whirls round This expedition can be made only in the tion, and is the more remarkable, as it in with wonderful rapidity. When he has been end of the year. The way is shortest in volves the belief in a superior Being. They fortunate in getting over, the Torngak leads winter, when the nights are long and say, that after the death of the whole human him by the hand upon a rope, stretched dark, and the rainbow, which is their first race, the solid mass of the earth will be across the chasm, and through the sentry of heaven, presents itself in the greatest proxshattered into small fragments, which will seals, into the palace of the fury. As soon imity to the earth. The Angekok begins be cleared by a mighty deluge from the blood as she espies her unwelcome guests, she the ceremony with drumming, and whirls of the dead: a tempest will then unite the trembles and foams with rage, and hastens himself round with frightful contortions, till purified particles, and give them a more to set on fire the wing of a sea-fowl, for the his frame is exhausted, and his spirits workbeautiful form. The new world will not be stench of this would enable her to take the ed up to the proper pitch of enthusiasm. a barren wilderness of barren rocks, but a suffocated Angekok and his Torngak cap- He is then led to the entry of the house; plain clothed with everlasting verdure, and tives. But these heroes seize her before she one of his pupils ties his head between his covered with a superfluity of animals; for can effect the fatal fumigation, pull her legs, and his hands behind his back; all the they believe that all the present animal crea-down by the hair, and strip her of her filthy lamps are extinguished, and the windows tion will be revivified. As for the men, amulets, which by their occult powers enclosed. No one must witness his interview Pirksoma, i. e. He that is above, shall slave the inhabitants of the ocean. The en- with the spirit, nor move a finger while it is YOL IV.

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going on, lest the spirit should be disturbed, in the fruits of the labours of the misor rather, lest the fraud should be detected.sionaries; among whose later transacAfter beginning a song, in which all join, he tions, we are informed,-* groaus, and puffs, and foams with great perIn November 1816, an adult heathen was turbation, demanding his familiar, who is frequently very slow to come. If the Torn-baptized at New Herrnhut, and as an interThe letters of last year, which arrived ungak absolutely refuses to make his appear-val of sixteen years had elapsed since the usually early, contained an account of a meance, the soul of the wizard sets out to last transaction of the kind, it was attended lancholy accident at Kangek; a large number fetch him. After a short absence he returus with a more solemn impression on all the of Greenlanders having been seized with a vi with a loud laugh of joy, accompanied, as a spectators. In the same place, the mission- olent and fatal illness, in consequence of their sensible European, who had several times ary, Henry Mentzel, was suddenly called eating of the putrified brains of a walrus, been present, assured me, with a rustling home to his eternal rest, October 31st, 1816. no less than thirty-two persons were carried resembling the noise of birds flying over the He had spent thirty-three years of his life in off by the sickness which ensued, in a very roof, and then swooping down into the house. the active service of the Greenland mission.short time. The Brethren had the pleasure If, however, the Torngak comes voluntarily, to perceive that the greater part were able he remains without at the entrance of the to rejoice in the prospect of their dissoluavenue; and there the Angekok consults tion, and that those who had fallen into dehim on any subject, respecting which the viations, turned in their last hours, as true Greenlanders wish for information. Two penitents, to the Saviour of sinners. The different voices are distinctly heard, the one friends and neighbours of the deceased on the outside of the house the other within. could not be otherwise than deeply affected The answer is always durk and ambiguous. The heaters unravel it amongst themselves, and if they are not unaniinous in their explanation, they beg the Torngak to give the Angekok a clearer response. A strange Torngak sometimes comes, whom neither the Angekok nor the anditors can understand; so that the answer requires as much labour to develope it as those of the Delphic oracle, and leaves sufficient room for the sorcerer to exculpate himself, however the prediction

turns out.

missionaries concur in stating, that the
winters have of late increased in severity and
duration, while the summers have become
colder and more stormy, and the supplies of
drift-wood less and less abundant. The in-
tercourse between the different settlements
met with unusual obstruction, from the ga-by this awful occurrence.
thering of ice in all the inlets, and round
the islands of the coast, which formed an
impenetrable barrier for a great part of
the year, and confined their excursions to
very narrow limits. A marked difference
was, however, observed between the climates
of New Herrnhut and Lichtenau, that of
the latter being warm in comparison.

In Labrador, we are told

An unfavourable circumstance for the new mission, was the neighbourhood of Arvertok, whose heathen inhabitants too frequently allowed their believing countrymen to join them in practices of the grossest superstition; making them promise to return to their former pagan habits, which, however, they were to conceal from the observation of the missionaries; and when their enticements proved unavailing, their chief, Kapik, threatened to kill the refractory by his Torngak.

In this place, the number of widows and orphans, destitute of every means of support, became so considerable, that the missionaries But if his commission extends further, he found it necessary to solicit the benevolent as soars aloft with his Torngak on a long string,sistance of their friends at home, in favour of up to the realm of souls, where he holds a their suffering Greenlanders. A supply of toshort conference with the Angekok Poglik,bacco, which is the principal medium of trade the Fat or Famous Sages, and learns the in that country, was earnestly requested. In a fate of a sick patient, or even brings him letter of 1816, the missionary Kleinschmidt back a new soul; or else he wings his way thus describes some affecting circumstances downwards to the Goddess of Hell, and libe- of the distressed situation of his flock. rates the animals detained by enchantment. "Our poor Greenlanders had to endure a But he soon returns, and having found means severe famine in spring, in consequence of to disengage himself from his fetters, begins the severity of the winter. It was a heavy to howl and drums most hideously. He then time with us, as they directed their eyes to relates all that he has seen and heard, thoughs in all distress, and we could not help panting for breath, like one quite jaded with them as we wished. The little children es-erected in 1777, by the savages, near Nain,

his excursion. Afterwards he strikes up a song, and going round the assembled circle, gives each his touch or benediction. The lamps are now lighted, and the Angekok is seen with a pale bewildered look, and in a state of such exhaustion that he can scarcely

articulate.

It is not every probationer that succeeds in this art, and one who has drummed ten times in vain for his Torngak must resign his office. But the successful conjuror may, after a certain period, assume the dignity of Angekok Poglik. The candidate must lie in a dark house unbound, and after he has intimated his wishes by singing and drumming, if he is thought worthy by Torngarsuk, though few attain to this high honour, a white bear comes and drags him away by the toe into the sea. There he is devoured by this bear and a walrus, who, however, soon vomit hin up again into his own dark chamber, and his spirit re-ascends from the earth, to animate the body. And now the mighty sorcerer is complete.

We now take from the more original part of the work, the contrast exhibited

The same temptations and the same propensity to mingle again with their pagan countrymen, in those forbidden diversions, which, however innocent in themselves, were, from their accompaniments, uniformly found to debase and brutalize their minds, existed in a greater or smaller degree, amongst the inhabitants of the two elder settlements. A kache, or pleasure-house, which, to the grief of the missionaries, was pecially excited our pity, as they were less and resorted to by visitors from Okkak, has able to bear hunger than others, and besieged been described by the Brethren. It was our house every day, begging for food. I built entirely of snow, sixteen feet high and bought 500 cod-fish, besides a quantity of seventy square. The entrance was by a herrings, and distributed them chiefly among round porch, which communicated with the the children. Many of our people were main body of the house by a long avenue, obliged to eat part of their tent-skins, for terminated at the farther end by a heartwant of other sustenance. When our store shaped aperture, about eighteen inches was quite exhausted, with what feelings did broad and two feet in height. For greater we gaze on the famishing crowd which sur-solidity, the wall near the entrance was conrounded us, unable as we were to procure gealed into ice by water poured upon it. food for so many in this wilderness! But Near the entry was a pillar of ice supporting now the Lord's help appeared speedy and the lamp, and additional light was let in complete beyond our expectation. He heard through a transparent plate of ice in the our groaning, and it seemned as though food side of the building. A string hung from the rained from Heaven. The cold abated, and middle of the roof, by which a small bone was an uncommon number of seals came to the suspended, with four holes driven through it. shore, so that some were daily caught, and Round this, all the women were collected, carried home.” behind whom stood the men and boys, each having a long stick, shod with iron. The string was now set a-swinging, and the men, all together, thrust their sticks over the heads of their wives at the bone, till one of them succeeded in striking a hole. A loud acclamation ensued: the men sat down on a snow seat, and the victor, after going two or

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