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MARION 



EXPEDITIOX TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



Diesel oil. While this work was going on the photograph shown in 

 Figure 9 Avas obtained. 



In going over the warm, rocky hills to get the above-meritioned 

 view, two varieties of berries and many low bushes and plants were 

 seen. This surprised the writer greatly, for having read very little 

 about the true nature of the summer in Greenland he had imagined 

 it a place of almost continual ice and snow. Those persons unable 

 to go there but who nevertheless would like to get detailed and 

 authentic information about any aspect of Greenland should read 

 The Discovery of Greenland ancl the Exploration and Nature of the 

 Country, Copenhagen and London, 1928, published by the Commis- 

 sion for the Direction of the Geological and Geograijhical Investiga- 

 tions in Greenland. This book and its companion volumes are pro- 

 fusely illustrated bulletins published in English by the Danish Gov- 



SOUTH GREENLAND TERRAIN 



FiGDRH 9. — The rocky land devoid of trees supports in favored places during summer 

 a brief but rich vegetation. The coastal waters are characterized by irregular sounds 

 and bays. It was from such brooks as the ones shown here that we replenished our 

 supply of drinking water from time to time. 



eminent. They contain an enormous mass of information about 

 Greenland that has been compiled by scientific authorities who are 

 prominent in their several lines. 



At 5 p. m., watering ship was finished and the Marion got under 

 way again. She stopped off the town to pick up a member of the 

 engineer force Avho, thanks to the courtesy of the local officials, had 

 been working in the Government machine shop at Goclthaab repairing 

 our broken winch drum with the assistance of a native mechanic. 

 These two men could converse only by means of signs, but they had 

 succeeded in effecting the repairs necessary to put the hoist in first- 

 class condition again. 



Meanwhile, on board the Marion^ by dint of lifting with tackles 

 and crowbars, we had succeeded in getting the 2-ton spare winch 

 from the main deck up to the top of the deck house. There it was 

 bolted down in the place from w^hich the small high-speed winch 



