TN JULIANESHAAB, 229 



The weather was lovely ; merrily the boat flew over 

 the smooth surface of the water ; soon we were out of 

 the Julianeshaab Fjord, and sailing between the island 

 and the continent. A deep sea bay, overlooked by gloomy 

 mountains, opened to our left. This was the Kakorlok 

 Fjord, on the inner coast of which lay the ruins of a 

 Northman house, known by the name of the Cathedral of 

 Kakorlok. Straight across the Fjord, and round Storo, 

 did the road to Igalliko take us. The Fjord itself from 

 its entrance to its end is thirty-two miles long. The 

 overhanging rocks to the left as you sail inwards are 

 very steep. Along the whole length, from beginning to 

 end, there is scarcely a place to be found fit to haul the 

 boat in ; and in many places it is utterly impossible, 

 owing to the steepness of the rocks. The rocky masses 

 which encircle the Fjord on this side belong to the 

 mountain chain of Redekam, which runs between the 

 two great Fjords north and south from Julianashaab up 

 into the land. The opposite bank is in many places 

 flatter, the ground rises more gradually, and between the 

 distant lying rocks shines here and there the inland ice. 

 The landscape here is decidedly much more pleasing. 

 About the middle the Fjord sends out a short southerly 

 arm. There once settled the Northmen, and the place 

 was called Gammelgard; at this day the Greenlander 

 calls the ruined town Kaksiarsuk. 



On tlie road hither, one naturally asks oneself how is 

 it possible to breed cattle here ? At the time when the 

 ancient settlers were here, it might have worn a some- 

 what more habitable aspect; but to-day the eye sees 

 nothing but the Greenland stereotyped plots of moss, 

 with a few willow bushes and bare masses of rocks, 



