89 owners violated the charter party in advance of the beginning of the voyage. Other violations will be mentioned later. Crude repairs to the flywheel were made by Captain Pickels and the engineer at the blacksmith shop at Battle Harbor, and we sailed for Greenland at 4 p.m., 26 July. We averaged a fair run under oil as far as Godhavn, Disco Island, where we came to anchor at 1:30 am, 5 August, in a flat calm, having used the engine for several hours on gasoline to cross Disco Sound. It will not run on kerosene and but a small supply of gasoline was procured at Sydney. Then ensued four days of flat calm, two of which we spent in Godhavn Harbor. Had the engine been in good order we should have left there on the day of our arrival and proceeded under power up the coast. As it was, delayed by calm weather and light winds and having only one good breeze, we did not reach Upernavik till 7 p.m., 10 August. We stopped there for news of the Crocker Land party and information about the