DISKO ISLAND 9 
land. On July 4 we availed ourselves of an invita- 
tion from the Inspector for North Greenland (Mr 
Lindow) to accompany him and Mrs Lindow in 
his motor-boat to Godhavn, on the south coast of 
Disko Island, which we reached in six hours. In 
crossing the bay we were often enveloped in a 
dense fog; as it gradually rolled away, retreating 
like a high wall of uniform height, the sun lit up 
emerging icebergs; in front of us were the flat- 
topped basaltic mountains of Disko resting on 
rounded hummocks of the older gneiss—a remnant 
of the ancient continent which had existed for 
countless ages before the overlying strata were 
poured as molten lava over its weather-worn sur- 
face. 
Godhavn has about 150 inhabitants; the Settle- 
ment, which was a favourite place of call for British 
whalers, and is described by many Arctic explorers, 
has no resident doctor. If medical aid is required 
on any part of Disko Island in the summer a 
message is sent by a Greenlander in his kayak to 
the doctor at Egedesminde; in the winter the 
journey is made on a dog-sledge. We took up our 
quarters at the Danish Arctic Station (Frontispiece 
and Fig. 9), which was to be our base. The Station 
is situated about a mile from the harbour. 
The primary object of our expedition was to 
collect fossil and living plants and other natural 
history specimens. The localities visited for scien- 
tific purposes are included within the square bracket 
on the side of the larger map (Map 4), from 
Upernivik Island to the south coast of Disko 
