NORTHWARD BOUND 



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music of stringed instruments, over which the resident half- 

 breeds have acquired a fair mastery. The participants and 

 onlookers were all in a lively frame of mind, but not uproari- 

 ous; and at the appointed time of closing — ten o'clock — all 

 traces of hilarity had virtually been banished. 



We had hoped to leave early on the following morning, but 

 it was not until near two o'clock that the fog began to lift, 



The Most Northern Outpost of Civilization 

 on the Globe — Upernavik. 



and that a departure was made possible. Firing the official 

 salute, and dipping our colors, we gave three hearty cheers in 

 honor of our first Greenland hosts, and sailed out of the rock- 

 bound harbor. It soon cleared up, and we were able to make 

 our normal seven knots an hour. This morning it was foggy 

 for a while, but it cleared up beautifully, and now we are just 

 skimming along, and expect to reach Upernavik, the most 

 northern of the Danish settlements in Greenland, about nine 

 o'clock in the evening. 



