Some weeks after we left the S.S. 'Bele' at 

 Egedesminde news travels slowly in a country 

 with no regular postal service and no telegrams 

 we heard that the ship had struck the rocks of a 

 small island in foggy weather a few miles south 

 of her destination, the most northerly Danish 

 Settlement of Upernivik (Map A, U, lat. 73 N.). 

 Fortunately the 'Bele,' unlike the regular Danish 

 steamers, possessed a wireless installation and was 

 able to communicate with the King's ship rather 

 more than 200 miles further south, which speedily 

 went to her assistance and took back to Denmark 

 some of the passengers and crew who had mean- 

 while made themselves as comfortable as they 

 could in improvised tents on the inhospitable 

 rocky coast. The wreck of the 'Bele' may, it is 

 hoped, lead to the establishment in the near future 

 of some wireless stations on the Greenland coast 

 and on the Government ships. The statement that 

 there is no regular postal service, though true in 

 the ordinary sense, needs some modification. There 

 is a recognised scale of payment for natives who 

 convey messages or carry mails to Settlements 

 within reasonable distance of the ports of call of 

 steamers from Copenhagen. Upernivik is usually 

 spoken of as the most northerly Danish Settlement 

 in Greenland, but there is a trading station be- 

 tween lat. 76 N. and 77 N., established in 1910 

 under the name Thule, by the well-known Danish 

 explorer, Knud Rasmussen, chiefly with a view 

 to benefit the natives of the far north which are 

 the finest representatives of the Eskimo race in 



