BANGSTED'S EXPEDITION TO THE ICE-CAP 



tinue his studies at Camp Lloyd, but I insist upon 

 his going out, in part because it will mean a cer- 

 tain amount of rest. Both men will come in to- 

 gether on the Walrus when it brings the supplies 

 expected to arrive on the last voyage of the Disko 

 for the year. Sled dogs for Bangsted he ordered 

 at Godhavn to be shipped out on the Disko when 

 she put into Holstensborg to take the returning 

 members of the Expedition to Copenhagen. What 

 was, therefore, our disappointment when the Disko 

 arrived and Captain Hansen reported that due to 

 a very serious distemper at Godhavn no dogs had 

 been obtainable. Bangsted now sought to as- 

 semble a team from Sarfanguak, Holstensborg and 

 other settlements of south Greenland, and in this 

 he finally succeeded. He chose as the Eskimo 

 helper on the Expedition the hunter Marius, much 

 the best man for the purpose that we have met in 

 South Greenland, and one that we afterward em- 

 ployed on the Third Expedition. Bangsted's ac- 

 count much abridged follows: 



My party consisted of Dr. J. E. Church, the 

 Eskimo Marius and myself. My sled outfit at 

 the start from Holstensborg in early October was 

 drawn by eleven dogs all in good condition, hand- 

 picked, mostly heavily built animals. 



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