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ice and make a passageway for herself. Steadily she steamed 

 on, butting against the cakes and floes until her timbers quiv- 

 ered and creaked. At last we were in clear water again, and 

 then our vessel fairly bounded over the waves. 



Arrived at Holsteinborg, we found a pretty, clean little 

 village. There are more wooden houses here than at Godhavn, 

 and altogether the place looks more thrifty. We found the 

 governor absent, but the assistant governor, a young Danish 

 officer who spoke a little English, did the honors, and he pro- 

 cured twenty-three dogs from the natives for us. Among 

 other attentions, he sent to me a basket of radishes, fresh from 

 his garden. 



Business completed, the " Falcon " steamed north for God- 

 havn. On our arrival at this little hamlet we found everything 

 apparently unchanged, but, to our great disappointment, our 

 pilot informed us that Inspector Anderssen was absent on a 

 tour of inspection, accompanied by his daughter, and that 

 Governor Joergensen and family had gone to Denmark. We 

 found Mrs. Anderssen as rosy-cheeked and as youthful as when 

 we first saw her. She made our visit very pleasant, rounding 

 it off with one of her delightful little dinners on the evening 

 of our departure. We requited her hospitality by presenting 

 her with various kinds of fruit — pineapples, lemons, oranges, 

 and a watermelon. The natives expressed great pleasure on 

 seeing us, and old Frederick, who had accompanied Mr. Peary 

 on the ice in 1886, after shaking hands with me, said, "Very 

 gude, you look all samee," rubbing his hands over his face and 



