ABOARD THE TRAMP-SHIP FULTON 



Evans first with the Ivigtut authorities and later 

 with the Landsvogel at Godthaab, had indicated 

 that it would be very difficult, even if it should be 

 possible, to make a contract for motor-boats upon 

 such a voyage. This would be difficult at any 

 time, and was doubly so now for the reason that 

 the boats had been in use searching for Hassell 

 and could now no longer be spared. A further 

 difficulty was that motor fuel had been largely 

 used up. The attempt to get passage on a 

 freighter, the Fulton, which had recently been in 

 Holstensborg Harbor, had been frustrated by the 

 slow radio exchanges between Mount Evans and 

 Godthaab. Moreover, since our experiences of 

 the past week, we were not especially keen to 

 undertake further voyages on small boats, and this 

 one of more than two hundred miles to be made 

 with Eskimo skippers and on a coast none too 

 well known to them. 



The Disho, we found, was sailing in three hours 

 to North Greenland with all her passenger 

 quarters taken and every inch of cargo space filled. 

 Furthermore, it would be more than a month be- 

 fore the vessel could reach Copenhagen. A pleas- 

 ant surprise was now in store for us. In the har- 

 bor at Godthaab we found at anchor the tramp- 

 ship Fulton of 800 tons making preparations to 



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