JoLY, 1857. A:^D ESQUIMAUX. -23 



usually they have only produced leaves on this 

 spot, but once the young peas grew large enough 

 for the table. I expressed a wish to see the 

 interior of an Esquimaux tent. Petersen pulled 

 aside the thin membrane of some animal, which 

 hung across a doorway, and served to exclude 

 the wind, but admitted light, for, although past 

 midnight, the sun was up. Some seven or eight 

 individuals lay within closely packed upon the 

 ground ; the heads of old and young, males and 

 females, being just visible above the common 

 covering. Going to bed here only means lying 

 down with your clothes on, upon a reindeer skin, 

 wherever you can find room, and pulling ano- 

 ther fur-robe over you. 



Fiskernaes appeared to be a sunny little nook, 

 yet all the people we saw there were suffering 

 from colds and coughs, and many deaths had 

 occurred during the spring. The boys brought 

 us handfuls of rough garnets, some of them as 

 large as walnuts, receiving with evident satis- 

 faction biscuits in exchange. 



By next morning we were able to put to sea, 

 and early on the day following arrived off the 

 large settlement of Godhaab ; it is in the " Gil- 

 bert Sound" of Davis, and appears in many 

 old charts as Baal's River. Almost adjoining 

 Godhaab is the Moravian settlement of New 



