CHAPTER X. 



LICHTENAU. EXCURSION TO THE ISLAND OF UNAETOK. JOURNEY 



TO JULIANESHAAB. 



Departure from Nennortalik. — Igdlopait. — Mission in Igdlopait. — 

 Arrival in Lichtenan. — Greenland women. — Mode of Ijife in 

 Lichtenan. — Message from Julianeshaab. — Determination to remain 

 still in Lichtenan. — Evening sei'vice. — Excnrsion to the Island of 

 Unartok. — Warm springs there. — Another message from Jnlianes- 

 haab. — Prospect of returning home. — Parting presents. — Depai*- 

 ture from Lichtenau. — Arrival in Julianeshaab. 



Cheerfully we started tlie next morning, with a favour- 

 able breeze. The straits between the island Sermesok 

 were rapidly passed through, past Tessermiut and Unartok 

 Fjords as they are all called. By noon we had reached 

 Igdlopait. This island is a branch of the Lichtenau 

 mission. A missionary with wife and children lives here 

 amongst eighty natives. As our boat neared the island, 

 the shore became alive with people ; here no one had an 

 idea of our visit. Mr. Starick related our story to the 

 crowd assembled on the banks in a few words, and went 

 before us up to the mission. Mr. Starick' s speech raised 

 the people's interest in us. An old grey-headed Green- 

 lander held out his hand to me, saying, " I thank God 

 with you that He saved you so wonderfully, and brought 

 you to us." Igdlopait, the youngest of the mission 

 stations under the care of Mr. Warmow, is in a lonely 



^ By Professor Laube. 



