144 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
naturalists, the Rev. Dr Enander and Dr Floderus, 
who are well known as authorities on Arctic 
Willows, also a young lady-doctor from Copen- 
hagen, Miss E. Svensgaard, who had pluckily 
accepted for one year the post of Medical Officer 
in the Egedesminde district of North Green- 
land. 
On August 17 I saw Knud Rasmussen’s motor- 
schooner sail from Godhavn (Disko Island) for 
Godthaab with members of the Fifth Thule Ex- 
pedition on board, some of whom, including the 
leader and his companion in many expeditions, 
Peter Freuchen, expected to be absent at least three 
years. At about 2 a.m. we took leave of the party 
after many hours spent in most vigorous dancing 
in which both Danes and Greenlanders joined: the 
schooner slowly disappeared behind the rounded 
hills of gneiss that enclose the harbour of Godhavn 
(Fig. 9), the tall bearded figure of Peter Freuchen 
at the helm like that of a Viking steering his ship 
into the unknown. 
The Danish Arctic Station at Godhavn, where 
we spent several weeks botanising and geologising 
in the neighbourhood and working in the library 
and laboratory, is the only station of its kind 
where adequate facilities are provided for experi- 
mental work within the Arctic Circle’. A series 
of valuable scientific papers containing the results 
of research, carried out by the Director of the 
1 A fuller account of the Danish Arctic Station was published 
in Mature, November 3, 1921. 
