6 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 



Assistant, Mr R. E. Holttum, of St John's College, 

 Cambridge, to be one of the passengers. A few 

 days after leaving Copenhagen, in the middle of 

 an informal concert, 'God save the King' was 

 heartily sung for the benefit of the two English 

 travellers, a touching illustration of the uniform 

 kindness we invariably received. One of my many 

 pleasant memories is the friendliness of the Swedish 

 captain, who, after the loss of the 'Bele,' was one 

 of my companions, in very different circumstances, 

 in the hold of the 'Hans Egede' on the return 

 voyage to Denmark. Leaving Copenhagen on 

 June 1 8 we reached Godthaab (Fig. i) at midnight 

 on June 28. On June 26, in rain, fog and a turbulent 

 sea, we were somewhere off Cape Farewell; the 

 conditions, though trying to the navigating officer, 

 to whom floating ice was an additional cause of 

 anxiety, appealed to the imagination as a fitting 

 introduction to the mysterious land. The view near 

 the Settlement of Godthaab is dominated by the 

 two mountains, Sadelen and Hjortetakken (the 

 Saddle and the Antlers), nearly 4000 ft. high, 

 which were first ascended by members of a Swiss 

 Expedition in 1909. Hjortetakken, its gneissic 

 rocks weathered into outlines recalling the Lang- 

 dale Pikes in the English Lake District, is shown 

 in the photograph (Fig. 2). We sailed from Green- 

 land on September 6 and arrived at Copenhagen 

 on September 24. 



Going ashore for the first time, especially when 

 lack of knowledge of a country gives it an air of 

 mystery, causes a thrill of excitement and in such 



