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ony of Greenland, a town consisting of twenty-four houses. The entire popula- 

 tion of Greenland is estimated at about 2450, of whom 2300 are Innuits, and the 

 remainder Europeans. Of the Innuits, 1700 live by sealing, and 400 by fishing ; 

 the others being mainly mechanics and sailors, besides twenty native catechists. 

 Of the Europeans, thirty-one are " First and Second Governors twenty-four 

 missionaries and priests ; thirty-six clerks ; the others mechanics and sailors. 

 The forty-four native and European missionaries receive, in all, 13,600 Danish 

 paper dollars, equal to about |8500 in specie. The head-schoolmaster has one 

 hundred and twenty-five paper dollars ; three others receive one hundred dollars 

 each ; three, twenty-five dollars ; two, six dollars. Of these last, one teaches his 

 own two children, who are the only ones in his district. There are also four 

 women, who get a dollar a year each for teaching children their letters. The six- 

 teen Government employes get from forty to ninety dollars a year, besides pro- 

 visions for themselves and their families. Bread is baked for them every 

 fortnight. The currency of the colony is paper, the " six-skilling " note be- 

 ing worth about three cents. 



GREENLAND CURRENCY. 



The native Greenlanders are by no means deficient in intelligence. Mr. Hall 

 gives a facsimile of a wood-cut representing a woman and child drawn and 

 engraved by one of them who had received no instruction in art, and no educa- 

 tion of any sort beyond that of the majority of his countrymen. The great 

 festival of Greenland is the birthday of the King of Denmark, in which all the 

 population, native and European, who can be assembled, take part, his Majesty 

 furnishing the cheer. Hall gives a view of this celebration, taken from a draw- 

 ing made by a native. The original drawing was full of character. 



The " Rescue" having rejoined her consort, the " George Henry," from whom 

 she had been separated on the voyage, the captain proposed to set sail for his 

 proposed whaling-ground on the west side of Davis's Strait. They sailed on the 



