CHAPTER IH. 
COAST OF GREENLAND-SWARTE-IIUK-LAST DANISH OUTPOSTS- 
MELVILLE BAY-IN THE ICE-BEARS-BERGS-ANCHOR TO A 
BERG-MIDNIGHT SUNSHINE. 
The lower and middle coast of Greenland has been 
visited by so many voyagers, and its points of interest 
have been so often described, that I need not dwell 
upon them. From the time we left Sukkertoppen, we 
had the usual delays from fogs and adverse currents, 
and did not reach the neighborhood of Yv r ilcox Point, 
which defines Melville Bay, until the 27th of July. 
On the 16 th we passed the promontory of Swarte- 
huk, and were welcomed the next day at Proven 
by my old friend Christiansen, the superintendent, 
and found his family much as I left them three 
years before. Frederick, his son, had married a native 
woman, and added a summer tent, a half-breed boy, 
and a Danish rifle to his stock of valuables. My 
former patient, Anna, had united fortunes with a fat- 
faced Esquimaux, and was the mother of a chubby 
little girl. Madame Christiansen, who counted all these 
and so many others as her happy progeny, was hearty 
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