NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



on this lee shore threw up high breakers at the 

 landing beach. I was thankful that there was no 

 call to launch a boat in these waters, the treacher- 

 ous nature of which we had had many oppor- 

 tunities to know. 



Hassell and Cramer we had now given up for 

 lost since the persistent clear statement had come 

 in radiograms from the New York Times stating 

 that the plane had been seen over Julianehaab in 

 far southern Greenland. There was, therefore, 

 no reason why we should not proceed according 

 to our plans and go out to civilization by the last 

 vessel before winter set in. 



We were now expecting to leave the station 

 within a few days on the Nakuah, so as to make 

 connections with the Disko on which two of us 

 would proceed northward and the others down the 

 coast to Ivigtut so soon as transportation could 

 be found. Dr. Morton Porsild, the distinguished 

 botanist who is in charge of the Danish Arctic Re- 

 search Station near Godhavn in North Greenland, 

 had invited me to be his guest in an inspection of 

 the glaciers and icebergs of the Jakobshavn dis- 

 trict, and I planned to take our photographer. 

 Potter, along with me. By special concession 

 permission had by the Danish Government been 

 granted for Belknap, Stewart and Etes to sail on 



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