14 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 



naturalists, the Rev. Dr Enander and Dr Floderus, 

 who are well known as authorities on Arctic 

 Willows, also a young lady-doctor from Copen- 

 hagen, Miss E. Svensgaard, who had pluckily 

 accepted for one year the post of Medical Officer 

 in the Egedesminde district of North Green- 

 land. 



On August 17 I saw Knud Rasmussen's motor- 

 schooner sail from Godhavn (Disko Island) for 

 Godthaab with members of the Fifth Thule Ex- 

 pedition on board, some of whom, including the 

 leader and his companion in many expeditions, 

 Peter Freuchen, expected to be absent at least three 

 years. At about 2 a.m. we took leave of the party 

 after many hours spent in most vigorous dancing 

 in which both Danes and Greenlanders joined: the 

 schooner slowly disappeared behind the rounded 

 hills of gneiss that enclose the harbour of Godhavn 

 (Fig. 9), the tall bearded figure of Peter Freuchen 

 at the helm like that of a Viking steering his ship 

 into the unknown. 



The Danish Arctic Station at Godhavn, where 

 we spent several weeks botanising and geologising 

 in the neighbourhood and working in the library 

 and laboratory, is the only station of its kind 

 where adequate facilities are provided for experi- 

 mental work within the Arctic Circle 1 . A series 

 of valuable scientific papers containing the results 

 of research, carried out by the Director of the 



1 A fuller account of the Danish Arctic Station was published 

 in Nature, November 3, 1921. 



