6 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
Assistant, Mr R. E. Holttum, of St John’s College, 
Cambridge, to be one of the passengers. A few 
days after leaving Copenhagen, in the middle of 
an informal concert, ‘God save the King’ was 
heartily sung for the benefit of the two English 
travellers, a touching illustration of the uniform 
kindness we invariably received. One of my many 
pleasant memories is the friendliness of the Swedish 
captain, who, after the loss of the ‘Bele,’ was one 
of my companions, in very different circumstances, 
in the hold of the ‘Hans Egede’ on the return 
voyage to Denmark. Leaving Copenhagen on 
June 18 we reached Godthaab (Fig. 1) at midnight 
on June 28. On June 26, in rain, fog and a turbulent 
sea, we were somewhere off Cape Farewell; the 
conditions, though trying to the navigating officer, 
to whom floating ice was an additional cause of 
anxiety, appealed to the imagination as a fitting 
introduction to the mysterious land. The view near 
the Settlement of Godthaab is dominated by the 
two mountains, Sadelen and Hjortetakken (the 
Saddle and the Antlers), nearly 4000 ft. high, 
which were first ascended by members of a Swiss 
Expedition in 1909. Hfjortetakken, its gneissic 
rocks weathered into outlines recalling the Lang- 
dale Pikes in the English Lake District, is shown 
in the photograph (Fig. 2). We sailed from Green- 
land on September 6 and arrived at Copenhagen 
on September 24. 
Going ashore for the first time, especially when 
lack of knowledge of a country gives it an air of 
mystery, causes a thrill of excitement and in such 
