16 LICHTENFELS — FISKERNAES. Chap. II. 



CHAPTER II. 



Fiskernaes and Esquimaux — The 'Fox' reaches Disco — Disco Fiord 

 — Summer scenery — Waigat Strait — Coaling from the mine — 

 Purchasing Esquimaux dogs — Heavy gale off Upemivik— Melville 

 Bay — The middle ice — The great glacier of Greenland — Do Rein- 

 deer cross the glacier ? 



2$rd July. — Sailed the day before yesterday for Godhaab. 

 The fog was thick, and wind strong and contrary, but the 

 current being favourable we found ourselves off the small 

 out-station of Fiskernaes, when early this morning our fore 

 topmast was carried away ; this accident induced me to run 

 in and anchor for the purpose of repairing the damage. 



After passing within the outer islets, the Moravian settle- 

 ment of Lichtenfels came in view upon the right hand ; it 

 consists of a large sombre-looking wooden house over which 

 is a belfry, a smaller wooden house, and about a dozen native 

 huts roofed with sods, and scarcely distinguishable from the 

 ground they stand on, even at a very short distance. The 

 land immediately behind is a barren rocky steep, now just 

 sufficiently denuded of snow to look desolate in the extreme. 

 A strong tide was setting out of the fiord, as we approached 

 and anchored in the rocky little cove of Fiskernaes ; here 

 we were not only sheltered from the wind, but the steep 

 dark rocks within a ship's length on each side of us reflected 

 a strong heat, whilst large mosquitoes lost no time in paying 

 us their annoying visits. This remote spot has been visited 

 by the arctic voyagers Captain Inglefield, R.N., and Dr. 

 Kane, U.S.N., and still more recently by Prince Napoleon. 

 Dr. Kane's account of his visit is full and very interesting. 



