IN JULIANESHAAB. 



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as a wasliing-basin ; it now appeared full of coffee and milk. 

 Sorn's kindly invitation to help ourselves, we were still 

 less able to accept from the fact that the children took 

 an innocent pleasure in dipping their cups in the dish, 

 by which proceeding their unwashed arms dived up to 

 the elbow in the milk. 



Sorn, the steersman, the cook, and some of our men 



RUINS OF EKICK KAUDA S HOUSE. 



then went to kill the oxen, and I turned towards the 

 ruins. 



On the spot where Igalliko now stands, the oldest 

 Norse settlement once stood — Brattelid, Erick Rauda's, 

 the first emigrant's, house, when Igalliko Fjord was known 

 as Eimar Fjord, and the arm of the sea to the northern 

 end of Julianeshaab, which is not far distant overland from 



