NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



reached Holstensborg on the fourteenth. We were 

 permitted to fix up our beds in the old church, the 

 oldest building in Holstensborg and no longer in 

 use. We boarded, however, at the Governor's. 

 After the solitude of our camp on the Sondre 

 Stromfjord the howling, snarling and fighting of 

 the packs of dogs during the night, and the horns 

 of the halibut boats calling their men before four 

 in the morning, kept us awake in the days while 

 waiting for the arrival of the Disko, 



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