TO GREENLAND ON THE MORRISSEY 



without beacons, has relatively few soundings away 

 from the fishing banks, and Captain Bob with all 

 his visits to North Greenland had never once made 

 port in this section or even sailed near the coast. 



After breakfast on the sixth the engines were 

 stopped and still making nine knots under sail, the 

 Captain and I studied keenly the features of the 

 shore, comparing them with our maps. We be- 

 lieved now that we were able to recognize the 

 entrance to the great Sondre Stromf jord. About 

 nine-thirty a sail was made out far ahead and al- 

 most at the same moment with our binoculars we 

 had made out a camp on a low island to starboard. 

 The ship was at once brought into the wind and 

 the motor-boat lowered. Putnam, Peary, Dunrud 

 and Will Bartlett, the mate, got into her. A high 

 sea was running and the motor as usual tempera- 

 mental, so that there was some difficulty at first in 

 getting off. However, Peary soon had the motor 

 under control and the boat started toward the 

 shore. As soon as the Eskimo encampment made 

 out the motor-boat leaving the ship, two men in 

 kayaks put off from the shore. Soon we saw one 

 of them reach the motor-boat and be taken on board 

 while the other returned to the shore. As the 

 Eskimo came over the side Captain Bob pro- 

 nounced the word Holstensborg. The Eskimo 



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