378 THE ZOOLOGIS!. 
to this port we passed close to a superb iceberg: it had a lofty 
arch piercing its very centre, through which shone the warm 
colours of the midnight sun. This iceberg, ai least two hundred 
feet out of the water, was streaked with saphirine-blue, and close 
to the water’s edge with vivid green; hundreds of Fulmars, and 
many Arctic Terns, were perched on it. As the ‘ Valorous, 
following us, showed through the crystal arch the effect was 
magnificent. On shore at Ritenbenk we found young Wheatears, 
Lapland Buntings, and Snow Buntings, able to fly; the young 
Ptarmigans, L. rupestris, were following their parents. The crops 
of these newly-hatched birds contained blossoms of Vaccinium 
uliginosum, and the young buds of Cassiope telragona. 
A party from our ships visited a breeding place of sea-fow], on 
Arveprins Island, for the purpose of obtaining a supply of fresh 
meat: a large number of Alca brunnichi and A. torda, a Glaucus 
Gull, two Kittiwakes, two King Eiders, and a common Eider, 
were brought back by the gunners. A young Cormorant, Phala- 
crocorax carbo, with only one wing developed, was taken from its 
nest: the head of the humerus was rounded, and there was an 
entire absence of radius and ulna; the bird was nearly as large as 
an adult, and well nourished; its stomach contained four ounces 
of gneiss pebbles. One of the Razorbills had its hatching-spot 
on the side under the wing, and not on the belly, as usual: this 
bird during incubation must have lain on its side. 
On Arveprins Island we came on a deserted burial ground: the 
tombs, some twenty in number, had been originally built with 
blocks of gneiss, covered over with slabs of the same material; all 
had fallen down. These tombs had been raised over the corpse, 
the rocky nature of the ground having prevented the digging of a 
grave. The few fragments of human bones left lay on the surface 
of the rock: no implements of any kind were to be found. 
At Ritenbenk we parted company with the ‘ Valorous,’ and said 
good-bye with regret to our kind friends. During my stay at 
Godhavn I had the opportunity of sharing in some dredging 
operations, under the guidance of Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, who, to 
complete his personal acquaintance with the fauna of the northern 
seas, had undertaken the long and trying voyage to Greenland, on 
board the ‘Valorous.’* Here, also, we bad to say adieu to 
* The biological results of this cruise, by Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., are 
published in the Proc. Roy. Soc., 1876, 
