90 A SUMMER IN GREENLAND 
having put on the official uniform, including a 
cocked hat, he pinned the badge of knighthood 
on the breast of the Danish Factor and presented 
medals to a few of the senior natives. This ceremony 
would have been performed by the King of Denmark 
had not the disaster to the S.S. ‘Bele’ interfered 
with his plans. Immediately after the presentation 
the Inspector took snapshots of his audience; the 
King’s representative became an interested photo- 
grapher. Coffee and cigars were handed round to 
the men and women of the Settlement and at the 
conclusion of the more public ceremony the Danish 
officials and their English guests toasted the 
recipients of the royal honours in official wine. 
The scarcity of good harbours on the coast of 
the Nigssuaq Peninsula and the sudden storms 
are serious drawbacks to travellers who trust solely 
to a motor-boat and have not a supply of petrol 
sufficient to enable them to return to a place which 
they have been compelled, unexpectedly, to leave 
through stress of weather. The proximity of ice- 
bergs on an exposed coast is also a source of 
danger; frequently during the night blocks of ice 
and small icebergs bumped against the sides of 
the boat and had to be dealt with promptly. 
One of the best known localities in Greenland for 
fossil plants is Atanikerdluk (Map B, Atk.), an 
uninhabited part of the coast separated by a wide 
stretch of sandy beach froma peninsula that juts out 
into the Vaigat. It was here that we had our greatest 
disappointment in the course of a four-weeks 
expedition. On the evening of the second day the 
