JOURNEY ALONG THE COAST OF GREENLAND. 175 



mountains framed this pleasant landscape pictm^e, wliicli 

 was closed in tlie background by dim bluisb mountain 

 chains. 



Friedrichsthal (so says Dr. Laube) is one of tlie 

 younger mission stations of tlie Moravian confraternity. 

 It was established in the year 1827, and lies in 

 60° JSr.L.j and is, excepting Pamiadluk (which lies 

 some miles to the south of Cape Farewell, and is the 

 residence of a Danish petty trader) tbe most southerly 

 place in Greenland inhabited by Europeans. The com- 

 munity of Friedrichsthal, which also includes some of 

 the scattered squatters of Esquimaux in the neighbour- 

 hood, contains 437 inhabitants. The natives call the mis- 

 sion "Narsak," that is, level land; definite enough for 

 the conditions of land in Greenland. Plains are so rare 

 there, that they answer well for defining places. But one's 

 expectations with regard to this European colony must 

 not be too high. On a green meadow-land, which rises 

 gently from the sea, stands the mission-house. On 

 either side high mountains stretch inland to the north ; 

 the chain to the left is separated from Friedrichsthal by 

 a parallel-running Fjord, the Narksamiut. From the 

 high ridge to the right springs a merry brook, called by 

 the Missionaries " Konigsbach." The generally flat 

 shores of the bay juts out on the left into a natural mole, 

 a prominent granite rock, the "Look-out" hill. To 

 the left again of this rock is the entrance to the Nark- 

 samiut, a Fjord running deep into the land, from the 

 waters of which Cape Igikait rises proud and steep. 

 For some distance, about an English mile, one may follow 

 the flat land lying along Narksamiut ; then the cliffs and 

 rocks crowd closer together ; and only to those who are 



