l6 MV ARCTIC JOURNAL 



Thursday, July 2. We did not reach Upernavik until 2.30 

 yesterday morning, owing to a very strong current which was 

 running against us all the way from Godhavn. We remained 

 up all night, and at 1. 30 A. M. were enjoying the dazzling 

 brightness of the sunshine. Mr. Peary took a number of 

 photographs between midnight and morning. Upernavik is a 

 very different-looking place from Godhavn. There are four 

 frame-houses and a little church. The natives live in turf huts, 

 very miserable-looking habitations, built right down in the 

 mud. As soon as our ship steamed into the harbor, in 

 which two Danish vessels were at anchor, the governor, Herr 

 Beyer, came on board with his lieutenant-governor, a young 

 fellow who had arrived only three days before. We returned 

 the visit at noon, and were pleasantly received by the gover- 

 nor and his wife, a charming woman of about thirty years, 

 who had been married but a year, and whose fondness for 

 home decoration had expressed itself in the pictures, bric-a- 

 brac, fancy embroideries, and flowering plants which were 

 everywhere scattered about, and helped to make up an ex- 

 tremely cozy home. As in all other houses in the country, 

 the guests were treated to wine immediately on entering, and 

 with a delicate politeness the governor presented me with a 

 corsage bouquet of the flowers of Upernavik, neatly tied up 

 with the colors of Denmark. Our visit was fruitful in the 

 receipt of presents, among which were Eskimo carvings, a 

 dozen bottles of native Greenland beer, and a box of "goodies," 

 addressed to "Miss Peary," and to be opened, as a reminder, 



