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Island, and are shown more clearly on Map B. 

 Some of the places we visited are not marked on 

 Map By but our motor-boat routes are indicated 

 by the dotted lines. With the exception of Uper- 

 nivik Island (a short distance north of lat. 71 N.) 

 most of the places at which we landed in the course 

 of the motor-boat trips were visited by members 

 of the American Peary Arctic Expedition of 1897 

 for the collection of geological specimens and 

 plants and animals. So far as I know, that is the 

 last occasion in recent years prior to 1921 on 

 which an expedition with the collection of fossils 

 as the main objective visited West Greenland. A 

 general account of the American Expedition was 

 published in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 

 America, vol. ix, 1898. 



It is perhaps not generally known that Greenland 

 is a 'closed* country; the trade in skins, seal oil, 

 eiderdown, fish, and other products is a Govern- 

 ment monopoly and no foreigner or even Danes 

 are allowed to go there unless they have some 

 definite purpose in view which is considered satis- 

 factory by the Director for Greenland. A few 

 steamers and sailing ships go direct from Copen- 

 hagen in the summer, and of these the S.S. 'Hans 

 Egede,' on which we returned from Greenland in 

 September, is the best known. The ship is seen in 

 Egedesminde harbour in Fig. 3. On embarkation 

 everyone must produce a medical certificate signed 

 by a Danish doctor. The 'Hans Egede,' being 

 built for navigation in seas where ice is abundant, 

 is without a bilge-keel and has a well-deserved 



