CONCLUSION. 
We received all manner of kindness from the Danes 
of Upernavik. The residents of this distant settle¬ 
ment are dependent for their supplies on the annual 
trading-ship of the colonies, and they of course could 
not minister to our many necessities without much 
personal inconvenience. But they fitted up a loft for 
our reception, and shared their stores with us in liberal 
Christian charity. 
They gave us many details of the expeditions in 
search of Sir John Franklin, and added the painful 
news that my gallant friend and comrade, Bellot, had 
perished in a second crusade to save him. We knew 
each other by many common sympathies: I had 
divided with him the hazards of mutual rescue among 
the ice-fields; and his last letter to me, just before I 
left New York, promised me the hope that we were to 
meet again in Baffin’s Bay, and that he would unite 
himself with our party as a volunteer. The French 
service never lost a more chivalrous spirit. 
The Danish vessel was not ready for her homeward 
journey till the 4th of September; but the interval was 
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