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take care of the interests of the government, which are 

 chiefly maintained by the industry of the natives, and 

 Danish convicts sent thither for their offences at home. 



May 14 : ther. 24°, 38°, 26° : wind, nearly calm, variable to S. : in 

 the southward a heap of cumulostratus : the summits intensely white ; 

 brown and white cirrostratus floating slowly over the summit of 

 Disko : weather at noon mild and pleasant : in the afternoon the 

 state of atmosphere was a light greyish brown haze, blending land, 

 ice and sea, into one immeasurable field ; and, with the exception of 

 the summit of Disko, making the scene interminable. 



May 15 : ther. 30°, 31°, 32° : wind calm throughout : sun in a 

 dim corona : misty brown cm'ostratus creeping along the breast of 

 Disko, about half of its elevation : sea stiU and smooth : several very 

 large seals seen, but too cautious to be come at. 



May 16 : ther. 31°, 34°, 27° : wind W., light breeze : some snow 

 and rain, at intervals sleet : weather mild : ship in company with many 

 others at Fortune Point, made fast to a berg : saw a fox and a bear 

 this day : in the valley west of Fortune Bay, a flood of cirrostratus, in 

 snowy fleeces, spilling down from the summit of the mountain : 

 ciri'us. 



May 17 : ther. 34°, 51°, 36° : wind calm : in Love Bay, at Disko, 

 lat. observed 69° 10' N. : the atmosphere heated very mucli towards 

 the afternoon : the cirrus radiation, as heretofore observe^, occuiTed 

 this evening, at a great elevation, running from the southward. 



May 18 : ther. 40°, 50°, 34 : wind, light air and variable from N : 

 at 8 p. m. wind increased in the same point to fresh breeze, which was 



