GODTHAAB 7 
circumstances it is easy to follow the sound but 
often neglected advice of Francis Galton—' Interest 
yourself chiefly in the progress of your journey, 
and do not look forward to its end with eagerness.’ 
Godthaab, which is often spoken of as the capital 
of Greenland, has about 400 inhabitants. Unlike 
the more northerly Settlements it has no dogs; it 
lies south of the region where sledges are used in 
the winter. Godthaab is the headquarters of the 
Senior Inspector, the Inspector for South Green- 
land. Fig. 1, reproduced from a print taken by 
the Greenland photographer, John Moller, shows 
the landing-stage on the extreme left, also one of 
the very few roads in the country. The large 
wooden house in the foreground is the residence 
of the chief Danish official; to the right in the 
distance is the Seminary, the largest house in 
Greenland, and to the left the church with a 
wooden spire. There are more modern buildings 
here than in most of the Settlements and very few 
typical stone-and-turf Eskimo houses. Not far 
from the church is a simple stone monument to 
the memory of Jorgen Bronlund, a Greenland 
member of the Denmark Expedition of 1906- 
1908 to the north-east coast, who perished on a 
sledge journey: the last entry in his diary ran as 
follows: ‘I arrived here at the time of a declining 
moon and can go no further owing to frost bites 
on the feet and to the darkness. ‘The bodies of the 
two others lie in the middle of the fjord in front 
of the glacier.’ Close to the coast a short distance 
from the Séttlement is the old Station of the 
