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thai, and Pamiadluk had to fetch all their necessaries in 

 small sailing-boats from Julianeshaab or in the Green- 

 land "women's boats. Remembering that Julianeshaab is 

 eighty miles from Friedrichsthal, and that the light, 

 fragile hide-boats can only be used in fine weather, one 

 can easily see that it is no easy matter for the poor 

 Friedrichsthalers to provide their yearly stock of pro- 

 visions. 



We further learned that, for the moment, the mis- 

 sionaries, on account of the non-arrival of the provision 

 transports the year before, had but little to spare. The 

 German mission in Greenland is provided with all and 

 everything they want for the support of life from Copen- 

 hagen, by the Moravian Mission Society. Every year 

 one of the ships takes the goods, and in the summer 

 visits once both South and j^orth Greenland, from whence 

 the parties concerned provide means of further transport. 

 The often unfavourable situation of the ice, and some- 

 times the loss of the ship, prevents the cargo from always 

 falling into the hands of the rightful owner. To meet 

 such an emergency, the stations have mostly a year's 

 store in advance. 



Our friends the Friedrichsthalers, might well find 

 that, on account of the ice, they could not reach Ju- 

 lianeshaab; we ought, therefore, not to make too great 

 a hole in their provisions. So we resolved that, 

 as soon as Jonathan returned, we would travel on. 

 For to-morrow and the next day we would stay where 

 we were. 



About three o'clock, an excellent meal was served up, 

 upon which we set to work valiantly. This is the menu : 

 wine-soup, roast kid, with a mess of potatoes (dried 



