96 THE SEA. 



a kiss or a squeeze of the hand, and knew as well how to maintain their dignity and keep 

 people at a proper distance as any other young ladies. They are all good Christians and 

 church-going people, belonging, as do all the Esquimaux of Greenland, to some form of 

 the Lutheran faith, to which they have been converted by the mild and beneficent influence 

 of the kindly Danes. 



ENTRANCE TO THE MUSIC HALL, DISCO. 



The ball-room in which their first entertainment was given was rather small for forty 

 or fifty people to dance in, being only twelve feet by fifteen. It was also, perhaps, a little 

 dark, being lighted by only one small window, for as it was broad daylight at ten o'clock 

 in the evening at that period it was not thought worth while to bring in candles. The 

 ceiling was barely six feet high, and in fact the festive hall was no other than the workshop 

 of Disco's lonely carpenter, which had been cleaned out for the occasion. Over its " dore " 

 the inscription shown in the above illustration was found, intimating that it would "opn" 

 at 8 o'clock. 



