CHAPTER X 



THE SECOND EXPEDITION TO GREENLAND ON THE 



DISKO 



HE expedition of 1926 had 

 reached Greenland directly, 

 due to the fortunate circum- 

 stance that the Morrissey had 

 been chartered for the expedition of the American 

 Museum of Natural History and Mr. Putnam had 

 offered to take us along as passengers. This ar- 

 rangement could not be repeated, and after various 

 attempts had been made to travel by the Beothic 

 chartered by the Canadian Government to carry 

 supplies to the stations of the Canadian Mounted 

 Police in Baffin and Ellesmere Lands, and by the 

 chartered boats of the Pennsylvania Salt Company 

 which bring cryolite from Ivigtut to Philadelphia, 

 it was found necessary to fall back upon the small 

 Danish Government vessels which ply between 

 Copenhagen and the southwest Greenland coast 

 several times each season. These boats are old 



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