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the interior of one of them, in which we superintend- 
ed the manufacture of a dish of coffee. 
We were received hy the governor, accompanied hy 
an old friend of ours from Proven, a sort of secretary 
there, “ plenty-scrihe-’em” as he styled himself. The 
old gentleman had arrived at two that morning, in a 
whale-boat, with his stalwart sons, after thirty-two 
miles of pulling through the ice against the wind. 
“ Keesey ver hod,” he said ; “ the ice was very had.” 
The governor, superior in tone to Cristiansen, who 
is a self-made man, welcomed us with fine Danish 
good-hreeding, and there is no good-hreeding better. 
We found him out to he a desperate conservative, fear- 
ful of nothing hut change. Ilis house was after the 
fashion of Mr. Moldrop’s, of Godhaven, and scrupu- 
lously clean. Coffee was served ; and we had the 
honor of being introduced to three young ladies of the 
half-hreed, absolutely with frocks on. I thought I 
could see that one of them had pantalettes of seal-skin 
peeping out from under her skirt, and a wiser critic 
than myself might have said that all their dresses were 
somewhat antique of fashion. But they met us, on 
the other hand, with a lady-like disregard of our own 
outlandish costume ; and though our language was 
somewhat composite in its idiom, for I understand nei- 
ther the Danish nor the Ilosky, and they understood 
very little English, we managed to keep up quite an 
animated conversation. It was very pleasant to re- 
lapse in their company for a while, into the manners 
of society at home. 
We saw also the family of Petersen, Penny’s dog 
and Esquimaux manager, all neat and pleasing per- 
sons ; the sons, frank, manly fellows, and the eldest 
daughter really quite refined and pretty. But wm did 
