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circumstances it is easy to follow the sound but 

 often neglected advice of Francis Galton ' Interest 

 yourself chiefly in the progress of your journey, 

 and do not look forward to its end with eagerness.' 

 Godthaab, which is often spoken of as the capital 

 of Greenland, has about 400 inhabitants. Unlike 

 the more northerly Settlements it has no dogs; it 

 lies south of the region where sledges are used in 

 the winter. Godthaab is the headquarters of the 

 Senior Inspector, the Inspector for South Green- 

 land. Fig. i, reproduced from a print taken by 

 the Greenland photographer, John Moller, shows 

 the landing-stage on the extreme left, also one of 

 the very few roads in the country. The large 

 wooden house in the foreground is the residence 

 of the chief Danish official; to the right in the 

 distance is the Seminary, the largest house in 

 Greenland, and to the left the church with a 

 wooden spire. There are more modern buildings 

 here than in most of the Settlements and very few 

 typical stone-and-turf Eskimo houses. Not far 

 from the church is a simple stone monument to 

 the memory of J0rgen Br0nlund, a Greenland 

 member of the Denmark Expedition of 1906 

 1908 to the north-east coast, who perished on a 

 sledge journey: the last entry in his diary ran as 

 follows : ' I arrived here at the time of a declining 

 moon and can go no further owing to frost bites 

 on the feet and to the darkness. The bodies of the 

 two others lie in the middle of the fjord in front 

 of the glacier.' Close to the coast a short distance 

 from the Settlement is the old Station of the 



