52 Geographical Notices. 
The following is his letter :— 
Ex. 8. wo aa Harbor of SF seyret, ; 
Gre eenland, Aug. 14, 1 
Gentlemen—I have the pleasure to joan for the sosmien of the 
patrons and friends of the expedition my arrival at this por 
e made a quick passage from Boston. The schooner proved herself 
to be a good sea boat, and behaved admirably during some very heavy 
urred. 
On the twenty-first day out we were off Godhaven, and on the 5th 
inst. we anchored in the harbor of Proven. That settlement or outpost 
in the Upernavik district is forty miles southward from Upernavik. We 
Company. She will be rea r sea to-morrow, and | shall send my 
mail by the side of Dr. Rudolph, a retiring Governor of Upernavik, 
who returns in her to Copenhagen, and who has politely offered to do me 
this favor. 
rough the kindness and liberality of Mr. Hanson, the Governor of 
avik, and of Dr. Rudolph, 1 have obtained at Proven and Uperna- 
vik all - dogs that I require, and such furs as are essential to my party. 
tr. Hanson and Dr. Rudolph ey generously placed at my disposal 
arerything isaac their personal property or the public stores will afford, 
for the promotion of the interest of the Expediti 
I have also been fortunate in obtaining the services of an excellent in- 
terpreter, Mr. Peter Jonson. He has had much experience in the man- 
iy as we in the ital pround ~~ the 
church at Upernavik; and I have e directed a railing to be ructed 
It is pi apa ri me ‘* predict anything with respect to the prospects e 
before us. 
The season has been backward, but the weather has been very mild 
during the past ten days, and the recent southerly gales have double 
broken the ice. The wind now blows fresh from - — and if 
there is much ice before us . ies be driven to the so 
We shall leave here to-morrow, and attempt at ssi em Melville Bay . : 
passage, and shall hope to ke Smith’s Strait not later than the ist of — 
an RRS or ase es 
