GBEENLAND, 



CHAPTER III. 



HOLSTEIXBOEG. 



ON the 28th of April we made the land near Holstein- 

 borg ; not being aware of the exact position of the 

 settlement, we kept along the coast to avoid the nume- 

 rous shoals and sunken rocks. Being early in the season, 

 the latter were topped by sea-ice of considerable thick- 

 ness, which was somewhat an aid to us in finding out 

 their position ; but being similar in appearance to small 

 pieces of ordinary floating ice, they were often mistaken 

 for it, to the great risk and danger of the ship. We passed 

 many icebergs aground near the off-lying islands. 



The afternoon being thick and foggy, as it often is in 

 spring in Greenland, and a native who had been out seal- 

 hunting in his kajak coming alongside, with the bight of 

 a rope at either end of the kajak, he and it were brought 



