NORTHWARD BOUND 



II 



Thursday, June 25. We were promised another lovely 

 day, but after noon the weather changed and a cool wind 

 sprang up, which helped to push our little craft along at a 

 good rate. To-night we shall have the midnight sun for the 

 first time, and it will be weeks, even months, before he sets 

 for us again. Everything on 

 deck is dripping from the fog 

 which has gathered about us. 



Friday, June 26. In spite of 

 the thick fog we have been mak- 

 ing good time, and expect to be 

 in Disko, or more properly God- 

 havn, about noon to-morrow. 

 We saw our first eider-ducks 

 to-day. Numerous bergs again 

 gleam up in the distance, prob- 

 ably the output of the Jakobs- 

 havn glacier. 



Tuesday, June 30. We have 

 been in a constant state of ex- 

 citement since Saturday morn- 

 ing, when we first set foot on 

 Greenland's ice-bound shores. The pilot, a half-breed Eskimo, 

 came on board and took us into the harbor of Godhavn shortly 

 after nine o'clock. Mr. Peary, Captain Pike, Professor Heil- 

 prin, and myself went ashore and paid our respects to In- 

 spector Anderssen and his family. They were very attentive 



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Capt. Richard Pike— "On Duty." 



