258 THE (lEEMAN ARCTIC EXrEDITION. 



these summits one lias a most pleasant view of the colony. 

 By the harbour lie the magazines. The governor's house 

 scarcely differs from the others, and, owing to its sur- 

 roundings, appears very low. Some other buildings, the 

 clergyman's and the assistant's dwellings, stand in the same 

 row. A cleanly-kept broad foot-way, and an open space 

 before the chief building paved with gravel, look well 

 against the green plots within the colony. The church 

 stands at the upper end of the settlement, and is sur- 

 rounded by a grave-yard hedged in with stakes. Between 

 this and the houses of the officials stand the huts of the 

 natives, which throughout are supplied with plank roofs. 

 Seen from a distance, Frederickshaab seems an excep- 

 tion to the general rule in Greenland ; but when you go 

 iuto the district itself, there is the same disorder and the 

 same intolerable stench as there is everywhere else. The 

 church-yard, which at a distance looks quite decent, 

 really reminds one more of a place where the flayer does 

 his work ; for on the graves and on the sward lie bones 

 brought by the dogs ; whale bones, birds, and fish in a 

 state of putridity, lie all around, and nothing but the 

 stakes separated this place from that lying in the same 

 state between the houses, which is still more disfigured 

 by the inevitable dung-heaps. 



Besides the governor, his assistant, and a pastor, no 

 Europeans live here. Nevertheless, the natives, who are 

 without exception half-breeds, have a strikingly European 

 cast of countenance, the men as well as the women. 

 Besides this, Ivikiit being in the neighbourhood, from 

 whence the Kryolite ships frequently have to put into 

 Frederickshaab, they are accustomed to intercourse with 

 Europeans. I even saw some native girls going about in 



