CHAPTER XXX 
THE EAST COAST OF GREENLAND. 
SCORESBY— CLAVERING— GRAAH—KOLDEWEY 
The east coast of Greenland is difficult of access owing 
to the great flow of ice from the polar basin. Until the 
days of Scoresby it was only sighted from a distance. 
Henry Hudson was the first to discover it, and give it 
the quaint name of H Hudson's Hold with Hope " in 73 0 N. 
On the old Dutch maps of Peter Plancius (1666) and 
Van Keulen (1707) we find "Land van Lambert" as far 
north as 78 0 20' ; "Land van Edam" in 77 0 10' N., seen 
in 1655 ; "Gael Hamke" in 74 0 , seen in 1654. Cape Bruer 
Ruys and Bontekoe Island on the Dutch chart were 
identified by Clavering, as well as Gael Hamke Bay. 
These were merely the sighting of high land at a distance. 
In the summer of 1822 the younger Scoresby, in his 
Liverpool ship, resolved to combine whaling with geo- 
graphical discovery. He forced his way through the ice 
into open water near the coast in company with two 
other whalers, one commanded by his father. This 
eminent Arctic navigator completed a careful survey, 
landing at several points, from Gael Hamke Bay to as far 
south as 69 0 N. He made botanical and geological collec- 
tions, and completed a chart of his discoveries. 
In the very next year Scoresby was followed by one 
of the most promising of Arctic voyagers who, like Mecham, 
was cut off in his prime. Douglas Clavering was the 
eldest son of General Clavering by Lady Augusta Campbell, 
daughter of the fifth Duke of Argyll. Born at Holyrood 
House in 1794 he served as a midshipman under Captain 
Broke in the famous action between the Shannon and 
Chesapeake. But young Clavering's bent was in the 
direction of the scientific branches of his profession, and 
the friendship he formed with Captain Sabine led that 
distinguished oificer to apply for the Pheasant for his 
pendulum observations in the tropical zones because 
