MOTOR-BOAT EXPEDITIONS 19 
miles off the coast of Labrador. During the voyage 
the Eskimo hunters were able to obtain a supply 
of fresh food sufficient for the preservation of life. 
One member of the party, who was in 1872 a girl 
of eleven years old, is still living on Disko Island. 
On the summit of a rounded headland of gneiss 
overlooking Disko Bay (Fig. 9), near the entrance 
to Godhavn harbour, is a small wooden hut, its 
sides made of boards nailed to four large pieces of 
the jaws of Greenland whales, which was formerly 
used as a look-out station for whales. Many names 
are cut in the boards of the hut, including those of 
explorers and of sailors from British ships dated 
more than a century ago. Standing by the look- 
out with the breakers of Disko Bay rolling up the 
rocks below, one thought of the members of many 
British Arctic expeditions who visited the spot 
while their ships lay at anchor in the harbour before 
sailing to the polar seas. 
From Godhavn we made two motor-boat expedi- 
tions, travelling over 600 miles in five weeks. 
After a short excursion along the east coast of 
Disko Island in the ‘Clio borealis,’ the motor-boat 
belonging to the Arctic Station, we returned to 
our base, unfortunately, owing to a broken shaft 
and the consequent delay, a few hours too late 
to be present at a luncheon on board the King’s 
ship to which we had been graciously invited. 
Our second and more extended excursion was 
made in the ‘Angut,’ a motor-boat belonging to 
the Director for Greenland, Mr Daugaard-Jensen, 
who generously placed it at our disposal when he 
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