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ralty charts, will be included in a special report to the 

 Department. 



"We were welcomed at the Danish settlements with cha- 

 racteristic hospitality. The chief trader, Knud Grelmeyden 

 Fleischer, advanced to us from the stores of the Royal Green- 

 land Trading Company at Upernavik whatever our necessities 

 required; and when we afterward reached Godhavn, the seat 

 of the royal inspectorate, Mr. Olrik, the inspector, lavished 

 the kindest attentions upon our party. 



" We had taken passage at Upernavik in the Danish brig 

 Marianne, then upon her annual visit to the Greenland colo- 

 nies, Captain Amandsen, her very courteous and liberal com- 

 mander, having engaged to land us at the Shetland Isles on hi3 

 return route to Copenhagen. But, touching for a few days 

 at Disco, we were met by the vessels which had been sent 

 after us, under the command of Lieutenant Hartstene. I 

 have no words to express the gratitude of all our party toward 

 that noble-spirited officer and his associates, and toward our 

 countrymen at home who had devised and given effect to the 

 expedition for ou? rescue/' 



