Apr. 1858. ANCHORED AT HOLSTEINBORCj. Ill 



CHAPTER VIL 



A holiday in Greenland — A lady blue with cold — The loves of 

 Greenlanders — Close shaving — Meet the whalers — Informa- 

 tion of whalers — Disco — Danish hospitality — Sail from Disco — 

 Kindness of the whalers — Danish establishments in Greenland. 



Wednesday/ night, April 2Sth. — Safely anchored 

 at Holsteinborg, and moored to the rocks ; a 

 charming change, after our position only a few 

 days back. We have been visited by the Danish 

 residents — the chief trader or governor, the 

 priest, and two others; their latest European 

 intelligence is not more recent than our own, but 

 the Danish ship is hourly expected ; she usually 

 leaves Copenhagen about the middle of March. 



The winter here has been just the reverse of 

 our own experience ; it has been severe in point 

 of temperature, but with very little wind ; the 

 land lies huried in snow, and as yet there is no 

 thaw; it is too early for the cod-fishery, and 

 not a single reindeer has been killed throughout 

 the winter ! Eider-ducks, looms, and dovekies 

 are abundant, as well as hares and ptarmigan. 



2dth. — A bright and lovely day. Our poor, 

 half-famished dogs have been landed near the 

 carcases of four whales, so they must be su- 



