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expected of people who have been living for four years north of 

 good manners. 



We then prepared for our departure, added many good things 

 to our stores, in the shape of salt meat, pork, coffee, and last, but 

 not least, the indispensable tobacco ; and besides these, had a good 

 supply of fresh bread baked for us. 



But we also took with us a sad memory of this place We 

 were obliged to part with a number of the faithful four-footed 

 companions of our sledge-journeys. Some of them we gave away, 

 mostly to the Superintendent and the pastor, but the older ones, 

 as we did not care to give them into strange hands, were taken 

 ashore and shot. The animals were as fat as they could be, 

 and there was eager competition among the Eskimo to become 

 possessors of the remains. They skinned them and feasted on 

 the bodies. 



As Baumann had succeeded in getting some sufficiently fine 

 weather to take observations for time, we were now quite ready. 

 On August 21, therefore, we said farewell to our friends, and, 

 under salutes from both the forts, answered by the ' Tram's ' two 

 canons, bore out from Godhavn during the afternoon. 



The sea was calm, the breeze a gentle one from the east-south- 

 east, and we made a comparatively quick voyage across Disco 

 Bay ; but later in the night a fog came on, and southward along 

 the coast of Greenland we had dirty weather, contrary winds nearly 

 the whole time, and, as a rule, a gale and high sea. We tacked 

 almost all the way, and it was only occasionally that we had a 

 fair wind for a time. Xor had we any too much coal. When 

 tacking against a head wind, therefore, we did not use more 

 than 90 to 100 revolutions, although the engines could do about 

 150 ; when we steamed ahead, or about ahead, we used probably 

 120 to 130 revolutions. 



During our stay in Godhavn Peder had pierced his knee with 

 a marlinespike, and was not fit for work ; he was quite unable to go 

 aloft and take in sails. Hassel had to act as steward, and Lind- 

 strom became stoker. The consequence of this was that there was 

 only one man who could go aloft and furl or unfurl the sails, and 

 this was the officer of the watch himself Eaanes and Baumann 



