FAREWELL TO GREENLAND 



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and crossing one another at right angles, one canoe shooting 

 over the bow of the other. These performances, which are 



Sports of the Kayakers. — Overturning. 



said to have been at one time common with all the west-coast 

 Eskimos, are rapidly becoming a lost art, and it has even been 

 doubted if they took place 

 at all. 



Our kind friends were so 

 pressing in their attentions 

 that it was not without re- 

 gret that we were forced 

 to bid adieu to their hos- 

 pitable homes and a last 

 farewell to the Greenland 

 shores. After a rather 

 tempestuous voyage we 

 arrived at St. John's, New- 

 foundland, on September 

 nth, to find a scene of 

 desolation, and wreck and Kavaker overturned. 



