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royalh" received by the latter gentleman, Avhose hoiiHe up there in 

 that wild country rivals in its sumptuousness a millionaire's in the 

 United States. The minino; company, we were told, is a very rich 

 one that pays its few stockholders a handsome profit. The taxes paid 

 by it to the Danish Government assist in defrayino; the administra- 

 tive costs of runnino- Greenland and permit the maintenance of many 

 services for the education and improvement of the Greenlanders. 



The Marion, was inspected with much interest by the Danes, the 

 live bear, Marian, proving the center of attraction. In the evening 

 the ship's officers were entertained at a banquet in the clubrooms of 

 the recreation center ashore. A pleasant time was had conversing 

 with the mine officials, and much was learned about ice and other 

 conditions in the southwest corner of Greenland. Figure 34 shows 



A SOUTH GREENLAND ICE STKEAM 



FiouKH 35. — On August 29. 1928, the Marion took on board a part.v of officials from the 

 Ivigtut cryolite mine and cruised up to the head of Arsuk Fiord. Many fathometer 

 soundings were taken on this run. After a distance of about 10 miles had been 

 traversed, further progress was blocked by this glacier which discharges into the fiord 

 from the inland ice. 



a picture of the cryolite mine that was presented to an officer of 

 the Marion by one of Ivigtut's amateur photographers. 



At 9.15 the next morning the Marion left Ivigtut for a trip up 

 Arsuk Fiord with a group of mine officials on board. The fiord is 

 deep and apparently free from hidden dangers to navigation all the 

 way up to the glacier which runs into it from the inland ice. The 

 sea front of this glacier was about 10 sea miles above Ivigtut at the 

 time of the Marion\s visit. (See fig. 45.) 



There was a small gravel flat along the south bank of the fiord off 

 the glacier end. Close to this morainal deposit the Marion anchored 

 in 14 fathoms of water at 10.30 a. m., August 29. 



A party from the ship ascended the glacier some distance, walking 

 oyer the smoothly undulating dead ice behind the gravel flat. The 

 views contained in Figures 35-38 were obtained at this time. The 

 glacier had an ice cavern extending in from a vertical terminal wall. 



