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way up; some of wliicli looked grass-green from the 

 scanty moss growing on the stones. On a low island, 

 which on Graah's map bears the name of Kutek Island, 

 we took our mid-day meal. In the depths of the rocks 

 we found some beautifully-tasting water, and for once we 

 drank as much as we wanted. The rocks of Kutek Island 

 must often have come in hard contact with the ice 

 drifting from the north ; many places distinctly showed 

 that they had been polished by the ice and worn quite 

 flat. On many rocks, which were partly covered by the 

 tide, lay the glistening blue fragments of pieces washed 

 up, and of crushed ice-floes. In the evening we hauled 

 up our boats five miles north of Cape Valloe, for the first 

 time on the rocks of the continent of Greenland. For 

 the first time, now that we had no longer the crowding 

 ice to fear, did we give ourselves completely and quietly 

 up to rest. The light of another bright sunshiny dawn 

 showed us some signs of vegetation inland. There were 

 sorrel, dandelion, and cinque-foil, which we sought for 

 eagerly in the fissures and rents of the rocky ground, 

 and with which, with the help of some pickle, we im- 

 provised a salad with the remainder of the divers ; got 

 once more under sail, and in the evening had left twenty 

 miles behind us. Our quarters this night were close 

 to the south end of Greenland (60° 34' N.L.), in front 

 of the Fjord of Lindenow (marked by Graali under the 

 unpronounceable name of Kangerdlurksoeitsiak). 



On the following day we passed the grandly -formed 

 pyramidical Cape of Hvidtfeldt (Kaningesekasik), more 

 than a thousand feet high. Before it lay a group of 

 clifi's, at one of which we pulled up, in order to find the 

 best channel. On this occasion granite was found 



