1 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
of stranded icebergs lay in deep shadow or in 
brilliant sunshine (Fig. 4). Going to bed by day 
in a situation such as this had its advantages, 
though at first sleep came slowly. Greenland has 
many and substantial advantages over a country 
possessing all ‘modern conveniences’; not the least 
of these is the practice followed at the Arctic 
Station of not being called in the morning. There 
are no duties to be performed requiring punctual 
attendance and the breakfast of coffee and bread 
and butter does not suffer by neglect; it is possible 
to enjoy the rare luxury of getting up when the 
desire for sleep has been satisfied. A short distance 
to the left the Red River flows into the bay (Fig. 5) 
and in certain lights a sharp boundary-line separates 
the turbid freshwater reddened by basaltic sedi- 
ment from the clear blue sea-water beyond, an 
excellent demonstration of the transportation of 
sediment and of rock-building on the edge of a 
coast. Close to the Station a steep bank covered 
with vegetation rises from the lower marshy 
ground bordering the shore to the foot of the vol- 
canic rocks above. The dark green of the bank is 
traversed here and there by a band of brilliant 
emerald green Moss (Webera albicans) that marks 
the course of a clear stream. Notices in the Eskimo 
language were put up some years ago by the 
Director asking natives to abstain from gathering 
plants for fuel, as the locality is very rich in inter- 
esting members of the local flora: this request has 
almost invariably been respected. 
Shortly before we finally left the Arctic Station 
