NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



it resulted in our station being cut off from the 

 world for several important months. Mr. Oscanyan 

 left the station at the first moment when he could 

 get away, which was in the following March, so 

 as to catch the first boat of the year to Copenhagen. 

 Since that time our radio plant has once more been 

 used, I understand, to arrange a marriage en- 

 gagement, but in this case without any loss to the 

 station's efficiency. 



Not fully realizing the part to be played by our 

 radio plant during the long winter, or the great 

 activity required by the scientific work laid out, 

 I had feared that the long and constant association 

 of two or three men within cramped quarters might 

 lead to unpleasantness. I had therefore placed on 

 the library shelf as a warning a copy of O. Henry's 

 "The Book of Hymen", which described in humor- 

 ous fashion the troubles of two frontiersmen who 

 were marooned during a long storm within a lonely 

 cabin in the mountains. 



Of the great service which the radio performs 

 we are first made aware when we find ourselves 

 unable to use the station for some special purpose. 

 The coast settlement of Holstensborg in spite of 

 its recently acquired importance in the halibut 

 fishing industry, is still without a radio plant; but 

 like most other coast settlements in Greenland it 



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