July, 1857. LICHTENFELS. 21 



CHAPTEK 11. 



Fiskemaes and Esquimaux — The ' Fox ' reaches Disco — Disco 

 Fiord — Summer scenery — Waigat Strait — Coaling from the 

 mine — Purchasing Esquimaux dogs — Heavy gale off Uper- 

 nivik — Melville Bay — The middle ice — The great glacier 

 of Greenland — Eeindeer cross the glacier. 



23rd! July. — Sailed the day before yesterday for 

 Godhaab. The fog was thick, and wind strong 

 and contrary, but the current being favourable 

 we found ourselves off the small out station of 

 Fiskernaes, when early this morning our fore 

 topmast was carried away ; this accident induced 

 me to run in and anchor for the purpose of re- 

 pairing the damage. 



After passing within the outer islets the Mo- 

 ravian settlement of Lichtenfels came in view 

 upon the right hand ; it consists of a large 

 sombre-looking wooden house over which is a 

 belfry, a smaller wooden house, and about a 

 dozen native huts roofed with sods, and scarcely 

 distinguishable from the ground they stand on, 

 even at a very short distance. The land imme- 

 diately behind is a barren rocky steep, now just 

 sufficiently denuded of snow to look desolate in 



