182 THE GEEMAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



What was meant by ojjen-heartedness, which, oddly 

 enough, is also (it seems) to be met with in Greenland, 

 I will not enter into, but the inclination for drink can 

 certainly only refer to coffee ; Jonathan was therefore, 

 at least in our sense of the word, no " soaker." Before 

 anything else, we now wanted a pilo^ to guide us from 

 Friedrichsthal further on our way. No one seemed more 

 suited to this than Jonathan himself, and for this post 

 he declared himself ready, only begging to be allowed 

 first to settle his affairs at home. The permission was 

 willingly granted. Jonathan hurried home. Had he 

 not also to take the weighty news of our arrival to his 

 people ? and no true Greenlander could have foregone 

 such an opportunity of showing his importance. 



Our friendly hosts would not hear of our immediate 

 departure ; but when we learnt that a royal Danish 

 colonial ship, the brig Constance, Captain Bang, was 

 expected in Julianeshaab every moment, and that we 

 could not reckon upon any other opportunity this year 

 of returning to Europe, unless the later coming Peru 

 should take us, or that we should travel northwards 

 thirty German miles to Ivikat, the place where cryolite 

 is shipped, we determined to hasten to Julianeshaab, and 

 if possible make our home voyage in the Constance. 

 We had thought the ships running from Denmark to 

 Greenland stopped at every European settlement along the 

 coast to Cape Farewell, and had so understood the notice 

 in Maury's sailing directions. Here in Friedrichsthal, 

 however, we learned better. A large vessel had never, 

 on account of the ice, come any further than Julianeshaab. 

 The southern trading-places and missions, Sudproven, 

 Lichtenau, Igdlopait, Nennortalik, Ostproven, Friedrichs- 



