CHAPTER XIII 

 GREENLAND 



Hans Egede The house of Eric the Red Nansen'a crossing of Greenland 

 Nausen and Sverdrup row to Ny Herrnhut Nordenskiold's journeys 

 Berggren's discovery Nordenskiold on the inland ice Glaciers and ice- 

 bergs Diatoms and whales Edward Whyrnper's expedition Greenland 

 in Miocene times Graah Scoresby Ryder The Germania and llanm 

 The Duke of Orleans The Eskimos of Clavering Island Franz Josef 

 Fiord The drift of the Hansa The Greely expedition The International 

 Polar stations Voyage of the Proteus Lockwood reaches 83 24' Greely's 

 wagon The Eskimo house at Lake Hazen Greely Relief expeditions- 

 The rescue of Greely Peary His journey to Independence Hay His 

 four years' expedition Reaches 84 17' His Polar expedition of 1905 

 The Roosevelt The voyage to Cape Sheridan Plan of the northern ad- 

 vance Peary reaches 87 6' Moxon's mariner. 



HANS EGEDE, aged twenty-two, priest of the 

 parish of Vaagen, in the north of Norway, 

 reading, in 1710, about the Norse colonists of the west 

 and apparently knowing nothing of Thiodhilda 

 was led to think that some of their descendants might 

 still be living in heathenism. Writing to the Bishop 

 of Trondhjem, he proposed to go out to these as a 

 missionary. The good father rather astonished him by 

 the reply that " Greenland was undoubtedly part of 

 America, and could not be very far from Cuba and 

 Hispaniola, where there was found such abundance of 

 gold," and, as those who went to Greenland might 

 bring home " incredible riches," he approved of the 

 suggestion. 



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